Zuckerberg gets huge response over 'dislike' button
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ON TUESDAY, Mark Zuckerberg hosted an in-person Q&A session at Facebook in Menlo Park, answering questions from people around the world.
His response to queries like, “We need to have more options than just ‘like’. Why don’t we have other options like ‘I’m sorry’, ‘interesting’ or ‘dislike’?”, instantly became news and received a huge number of comments from users across the globe.
Around 19 hours after Facebook’s chief executive officer said the company was currently working on having a “like and dislike” toggle, there were 110,000 comments posted about this on Facebook.
Yahoo posted on its Facebook Page: “How will getting a #dislike button in some form impact us?” and “Are you ready for a #dislike button?”
American journalist Steve Noviello posted: “Looks like Facebook is getting a ‘thumbs down’ #Dislike.”
@liamcunningham1 tweeted: “Facebook is apparently ‘working’ on a dislike button. This does not appear to be a deliberate attempt at comedy.”
Rick Party, a public figure, posted that “Facebook is making a #Dislike button ... or something like it. That’s going to hurt some feelings. How do you feel about this? Let’s talk about it!”
Lorrian Merritt replied to Party’s message, saying, “Not a good idea at all. Very bad move.”
The New York Times posted on its timeline that Facebook would soon begin testing the dislike button that people have been asking for. “Not every good moment is a good moment,” the newspaper quoted Zuckerberg as saying.
Meanwhile, Fox News reported Zuckerberg as saying that Facebook wanted to limit the use of the button to expressing sympathy when someone posts something sad or upsetting.
BBC Africa reported that “#Facebook is to add a ‘#dislike’ button to its social network, founder Mark Zuckerberg has said. In a Q+A session held at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, the 31-year-old said the button would be a way for people to express empathy.
“He said Facebook was ‘very close’ to having it ready for user testing. A ‘dislike’ button has been constantly requested by some users since the introduction of the now-iconic ‘like’ button in 2009.”
Zuckerberg said on Tuesday: “People have asked about the dislike button for many years.
“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,” he said.
However, he went on to say he did not want it to be a mechanism with which people could “down vote” others’ posts. Instead, it will be for times when clicking “like” on “sad” posts felt insensitive.
There have been comments on the dislike-button issue in Thailand, as well.
Pisek Chainirun said he really did not want to have such a button.
Wannam Pantip, a famous Thai blogger, said she had seen a lot of messages about a Facebook dislike button on her timeline, and she would like to sum up with the conclusion reached by her friend, Marut Khieokae.
Summarising from a piece on Tech Crunch (http://techcrunch.com/|2015/09/15/the-sorry-button/), she said Marut had said the Facebook is not creating a dislike button because of not wanting to have an “up-down” vote, since it is not web board issue, but because it wants to allow people to express their sympathy to any tragedy or regretful incidents.
It is more like an “empathy button” than a “dislike button”, he added.
Suradanai Naorungrot commented that a dislike button could well be used for the wrong purpose, while Usanee Notiee Jaroon said that according to the feedback, it should be called a ‘sensitive button’.
Highlights from the Q&A with Zuckerberg can be found at http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2015/09/highlights-from-qa-with-mark-8/
