For the first time, the world’s leading social media networking site seem to be listening to the wishes of its 1.5 billion Facebook users.
In a recent interaction, its CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that a “Dislike” button is soon coming to Facebook that will let you reveal true feelings on your friends’ wall or respond to anti-humanity posts.
During a questions and answers session at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Caifornia, on Tuesday, Zuckerberg said: “I think people have asked about the dislike button for many years. Today is a special day because today is the day I can say we’re working on it and shipping it”.
“Facebook realized people want to express emotions other than positivity, especially around posts about sensitive topics,” he told the audience.
On the other hand, he did not explain exactly how this dislike button works. “Dislike,” button may be about opening up an avenue for users to interact with interesting content that would be awkward to do anything with inside Facebook’s current framework.
“If you are expressing something sad… it may not feel comfortable to ‘like’ that post, but your friends and people want to be able to express that they understand,” Zuckerberg commented.
