Zuckerberg announces Facebook ‘dislike’ button
The social network’s CEO said the tool should be used to ‘express empathy,’ not to ‘downvote’ posts.
Facebook is giving its users another way to respond to posts.
CNBC reported that on Tuesday, Facebook’s co-founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced the news during a Q&A session:
People have asked about the ‘dislike’ button for many years, and 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.
Facebook has been firm in its stance against creating a “dislike” button. In October 2014, the social network’s former CTO, Bret Taylor, explained the reason behind the decision:
The “dislike” button “came up a lot. In fact, even the language of the word like was something we discussed a lot as well. But regarding the ‘dislike’ button, the main reason is that in the context of the social network, the negativity of that button has a lot of unfortunate consequences.
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