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Facebook rolling out a 'dislike' feature.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34264624

Quote:

Facebook is to add a "dislike" button to its social network, founder Mark Zuckerberg has said.

In a Q+A session held at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, the 31-year-old said the button would be a way for people to express empathy.

He said Facebook was "very close" to having it ready for user testing.

A "dislike" button has been constantly requested by some users since the introduction of the now-iconic "like" button in 2009.

"People have asked about the 'dislike' button for many years," Mr Zuckerberg told the audience on Tuesday.

"Probably hundreds of people have asked about this, and today is a special day because today is the day that I actually get to say we are working on it, and are very close to shipping a test of it."

However he went on to say he did not want it to be a mechanism with which people could "down vote" others' posts.

Instead, it will be for times when clicking "like" on "sad" posts felt insensitive.

Prof Andrea Forte, an expert in social and participatory media at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said users will not suddenly turn on each other's posts.

In an email, she wrote: "They may use a dislike button to express some negative emotions (like frustration with ads popping up in their feeds) but I doubt it will cause them to start wantonly disliking pictures of their friends' babies, dogs, cats and cooking experiments.

"I suspect it will mainly be used to express mild disapproval, or to express solidarity when someone posts about a negative event like a death or a loss."

Not sure what to think tbh.

Yeah... I hope there's a disable function.

So they roll this out six years after all the campaigns when hardly anyone gives a **** anymore? :laugh:

I used to support it but I think the idea is a little disconcerting now dependent on how it works. It would be best if it's an opt-in feature and one that if you choose to disable it on your own profile, you can't dislike anyone else's posts either. Perhaps an option to enable it for specific posts you're making, as seems to be what they're alluding to, would also help.

No thank you, that would be awful.

It's not even a dislike button. It's an empathy button. Seems pointless.

"I doubt it will cause them to start wantonly disliking pictures of their friends' babies, dogs, cats and cooking experiments."

Has he ever even USED Facebook? Or... The Internet? Of course it will be used to troll. The top two uses of the Internet are porn and trolling.

However he went on to say he did not want it to be a mechanism with which people could "down vote" others' posts.

Instead, it will be for times when clicking "like" on "sad" posts felt insensitive.

I don't even use Facebook but I can see straight away you'll have people liking and disliking posts like that

If you want a self esteem boost, don't come on the internet...saying that i don't think it's going to be used as simple as disliking someone's picture. more like disliking a news article of 50 people dying or something.

shut the messy rubbish down

It would be abused, thankfully i don´t use facebook.

As if the suicide rate from cyberbullying wasn't enough.

What a dreadful idea

-'Dislikes' all of Ross' posts-