Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is “thinking” adding a dislike button.
Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook is aware that a lot of people want a way to dislike something, rather than being forced to “like” everything.
From Venture Beat:
Asked by a U.C. Davis law student during a public Q&A today if Facebook will ever add a dislike button, CEO MarkZuckerberg said that the company is “thinking” about it, so that expressing a negative sentiment “ends up being a force for good.”
Zuckerberg acknowledged that the company knows that many people think the “like” sentiment is not appropriate for posts such as when someone is sick. But he seemed to quickly backtrack. “The like button is valuable because it's a quick way to share a positive sentiment,” Zuckerberg said. “Some people have asked for a dislike button so they can say something isn't good, and we're not going to do that. I don't think that's good for the community.”
People have wanted a dislike button for a long time, and it was the most common question among the thousands of people who have posted comments on the Facebook page for yesterday's Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg.
“The thing I think are really valuable is there are more sentiments just than people like something,” he said. “There are things in people's lives that are sad, or that or tragic, and people don't want to Like them. We've talked about for a while how can people express a wider range of emotions like surprise.”
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