Facebook
CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that the company is finally
working on a much-desired feature: a “dislike” button. According to
Zuckerberg, this feature has long been one of those most-requested by
the Facebook audience.
Facebook, pressed for years by users to add a “dislike” button, says it is working on the feature and will be testing it soon.
“We’ve
finally heard you,” CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg told a public town
hall meeting in Facebook’s hometown of Menlo Park, California.
A
question submitted online by a user asked the oft-repeated question of
why there were no buttons along the lines of “I’m sorry”, “interesting”
or “dislike” in addition to the classic thumbs-up “like” button, through
which users show their support for posts from friends, stars and brands
on the social network.
“Probably
hundreds of people have asked about this, and today is a special day
because today is the day where I actually get to say we are working on
it and are very close to shipping a test of it,” Zuckerberg said.
“It
took us a while to get here, because we do not want to turn Facebook
into a forum where people are voting up or down on people’s posts. That
does not seem like the kind of community that we want to create.”
He
said he understood that it was awkward to click “like” on a post about
events such as a death in the family or the current refugee crisis and
that there should be a better way for users to “express that they
understand and that they relate to you.”
“We have been working on this for a while, actually. “It is surprisingly complicated to make,” Zuckerberg added.
“But
we have an idea that we think we are getting ready to test soon, and
depending on how that goes, we will roll it out more broadly.”
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