Facebook recently said in a statement, “we are testing
Reactions, an extension of the ‘like’ button, to give you more ways to share your reactions to
a Facebook post in a quick and easy way.” The world’s largest social network,
Facebook, have been pressed for years to launch a ‘dislike’ button to make up
for the existing ‘like’ button which helps users show that they like the post.
A trial had already begun in Ireland and Spain which allowed
users to select six emotions as well as the ‘like’ button on their posts which
included: sad, angry, love, yay, wow and haha.
When contacted on this, Mark Zukerberg, Facebook Chief
Executive said, “users wanted the ability to express empathy because not every
moment is a good moment.” “
Now, it’s a much broader range of human emotions you can
express, Reactions would give users greater ways of engaging with stories and
contents” said Chris Toss, Facebook product manager, as spoke to the Irish
national broadcaster RTE. He also said
that the social network decided a ‘dislike’
button would not ‘add value’ to the site.
For social network algorithms, ‘liking’ something especially
on facebook has a way of engaging users with stuff they like and also provides for targeted advertising. Toss
continuing also said, “if you are coming for humorous content and saying ‘haha’
to lots of funny cat videos, down the road we might use that to show you more
cat videos, but as of the initial test, you won’t see any of that”.
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