After years of constant nagging, Facebook has finally caved into user demands and is seriously working on a variant of the Dislike Button. This was announced by Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s CEO and co-founder on Tuesday.
To elaborate the logic behind finally giving into its 1.5 billion user’s demand, Zuckerberg said, “Not every moment is a good moment, and if you are sharing something that is sad, whether it’s something in current events, like the refugees crisis that touches you, or if a family member passed away, then it may not feel comfortable to like that post.”
Now, we know that Facebook does have the correct intention by giving users a way to show empathy rather than making them look sociopathic when they like a post about the Middle East Crisis or ISIS. However, this didn’t stop people from showing concern about how the addition of a “Dislike” button will only make the social media a less friendlier place than it already is and how it will give bullies another tool to harass their victims.
At this moment, just like the rest of the world we can only speculate how the button will fare and whether it will be a disaster or a success as Facebook has refused to provide an exact timeline when the feature will be made available to the general public. Zuckerberg made this perfectly clear by stating, “We have an idea that we’re going to be ready to test soon, and depending on how that does, we’ll roll out it more broadly”
