Facebook working on ‘dislike’ button

Facebook working on ‘dislike’ button

After years of speculation and member requests, Facebook is finally working on a ‘dislike’ button that would not ‘downvote’ posts but instead let users express other emotions, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said.

Zuckerberg said the feature will be coming soon during a town hall meeting at the company’s California headquarters.

However, he said it wouldn’t be a way for users to ‘downvote’ posts and instead would let users express other emotions besides the inferred positivity of the ‘like’ button.

“People have asked about the ‘dislike’ button for many years, and 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,” Zuckerberg said, according to a media report.

Zuckerberg added that the company has held off on a ‘dislike’ button to avoid becoming a Reddit-style system that encouraged upvoting and downvoting, according to reports.