CEO Mark Zuckerberg has revealed that Facebook may integrate an alternative to its ubiquitous Like button. Facebook users have asked for a Dislike button for years, and the company now is preparing to launch a test of something designed to respond to that user demand. The idea is not to transform Facebook into a forum where users could in essence vote up or down on particular posts — that isn’t the point. Instead, the idea is to provide a way for users to express emotions other than Like when posts may contain sad or disturbing news.
In my opinion, the day that Facebook implements the "Dislike"/"Down-vote" button, it will be the day that many users will start to boycott using Facebook. Why? Because their ego will be harmed. For now many people who are posting on their publicly made profiles the pictures that have been made on their free time feel that they are getting positive attention. Why? Because they see on their monitors that, let's say, 100 people had pressed the "Like" button. And they think: "Wow, many people like my photos. Must publish more". And many people follow this trend, because they like being "liked". However, introduce an option of "Dislike" button, and you will begin to see how many people actually give a damn about your posts, about your pictures, the music you like, the books you've written. It could very well be that not many give a damn. And then your ego is bruised, and you start to think: "OK, so, people do not like what I'm doing. So, why am I still posting this? I shall simply find something else". And you have a decline in Facebook users.
Now, I may like (as a regular Facebook user who visits it 1 time a week, because for "catching-up" with friends who are abroad I usually use "SKYPE") this new initiative to introduce a variety of support "emoticons", because as it was stated, it was kind of a baffle to see so many likes, for example, on a Internet newspaper depicting rape or murder. What, that means that people like this stuff? Or it just means that they press "Like" in order to express their solidarity with someone?
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Facebook’s Button Pushing: What’s Not to Like?
Posted by: Peter Suciu September 16, 2015 03:42 PMCEO Mark Zuckerberg has revealed that Facebook may integrate an alternative to its ubiquitous Like button. Facebook users have asked for a Dislike button for years, and the company now is preparing to launch a test of something designed to respond to that user demand. The idea is not to transform Facebook into a forum where users could in essence vote up or down on particular posts — that isn’t the point. Instead, the idea is to provide a way for users to express emotions other than Like when posts may contain sad or disturbing news.
Now, I may like (as a regular Facebook user who visits it 1 time a week, because for "catching-up" with friends who are abroad I usually use "SKYPE") this new initiative to introduce a variety of support "emoticons", because as it was stated, it was kind of a baffle to see so many likes, for example, on a Internet newspaper depicting rape or murder. What, that means that people like this stuff? Or it just means that they press "Like" in order to express their solidarity with someone?