Facebook Developing A Dislike Button

You ever see a post from the guy who irritates you so much that you wished there was a little dislike button right next to the like button for you to dislike him into oblivion.

Well you still cannot do that.

Facebook is working on a ‘dislike’ button to be embedded in posts. The button, however, would not work like a button for you to dislike other people’s posts.

What it would do would be to serve as a means of showing empathy with someone who posted some sad news. I’m sure we’ve all had that experience where someone posted something bad that you wanted to show solidarity, but felt it wildly inappropriate to like such a post. This new button is set to solve that.

“People have asked about the ‘Dislike’ button for many years … 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,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday during a public Q&A session

“We don’t want to turn Facebook into a forum where people are voting up or down on people’s posts,” Zuckerberg said.

“That doesn’t seem like the kind of community that we want to create: you don’t want to go through the process of sharing some moment that was important to you in your day and have someone downvote it.”

So you cannot dislike a post per se, but show solidarity with someone in a difficult moment. The feature’s name needs some work, I think.