It's Finally Here! The 'Dislike' Button On Facebook — But There's A Catch
While Facebook isn't introducing a full dislike button, the Messenger part of the service is getting a giant thumbs-down sticker as part of a free pack released this week.
By Sadho Ram — 09 Dec 2013, 07:03 PM — Updated almost 11 years ago
Facebook still doesn't have a Dislike button, but its Messenger app just received a collection of new stickers, including an image of a thumbs down
The new sticker packs includes a bunch of hand signals animated in the style of Facebook's famous "like" button.
While a “like” sticker was already available on Facebook Messenger, the new set of finger stickers was added only now, after having been created during a hackaton that took place this fall.
theinquirer.netAndroid and iOS users of Facebook Messenger can now find the "Likes" sticker pack in the sticker store within the app. Downloading it takes just a few seconds and will include just 12 stickers, which is quite a bit fewer than Messenger's other sticker packs.
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To download the Likes sticker pack yourself, navigate to Facebook Messenger and tap on the smiley face. That will put up all of your stickers as well as a blue "Store" icon which is denoted by a blue basket. Scroll down to find the Likes sticker pack and tap on the download arrow to get it.
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Facebook is considering adding a less cheery alternative to its “like” button: a “sympathize” button
The long-coveted "dislike" button may never make its way Facebook. But a Facebook engineer said Thursday that the social network has informally experimented with an alternative to "like": specifically, the "sympathize" button.
Facebook's members have for years demanded a less cheery way to quickly respond to friends' posts, pointing out that "liking" becomes awkward and inappropriate when someone posts about a breakup, a death or even just a bad day.
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During a Facebook hackathon, an engineer devised a "sympathize" button that would accompany gloomier status updates
Here’s how it could work: if you were to tag your status with a negative emotion (from Facebook’s lists of feelings), the “sympathize” button would automatically replace the “like button.”
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"It would be, 'five people sympathise with this,' instead of 'five people 'like' this,'" said Dan Muriello, a Facebook engineer.
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"Of course a lot of people were - and still are - very excited about. But we made a decision that it was not exactly the right time to launch that product. Yet."
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A Facebook spokesman called the hackathons "the foundation for great innovation and thinking about how we can better serve people around the world"
"Some of our best ideas come from hackathons, and the many ideas that don’t get pursued often help us think differently about how we can improve our service,” the spokesman wrote in a email to The Huffington Post.
Yet many of the site's signature features, like Facebook Chat, the friend suggester and the Timeline profile pages, have indeed emerged from hackathons.
If you're someone who loves the idea of "sympathizing" your way through the News Feed, here's one reason to be hopeful: The "like" button itself was a hackathon invention.
And as much as we all want one, it seems Facebook is just never going to add a “dislike” button
The “like” button has been used to convey various meanings, such as acknowledgement of your post/comment, a thank you, or a “that’s funny, I liked that”, just to name a few.
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