Facebook to test ‘sad’ and ‘angry’ buttons on their sites; rejects ‘dislike’ button

Most times I’ve had some kind of reactions to someone’s post or comments on facebook and I was like, “why does facebook has no so and so button?” I know I’m not alone in this, that many of us have been there, but not to worry, facebook will soon start testing some new features which can allow its users to show or express some certain range of emotions while they update their status or comment on any post. But a bit of the little unfortunate thing is that they have said that there will not be any ‘dislike’ button.

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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