Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label like button

You won't believe what Facebook is planning now...

Just when we thought the folks at Facebook had thought of everything... For years now, Facebook users have availed of the "Like" button for everything from friends' baby pictures to relatives' funny videos. Meanwhile, though, they clamored for something that had seemingly missed the head honchos' radar screens until now: a "Dislike" button. We spoke, and Zuckerberg and company heard us loud and clear. It turns out that they now have a "dislike" button in the works. I can see good and bad things coming out of this. On the plus side, people can now use the new button for content of a serious or negative nature that just didn't seem appropriate to like, such as posts about people suffering from illnesses, layoffs, divorces, and so on. However, I can imagine some people's feathers getting ruffled at finding that someone "disliked" something they've posted. For example, I don't drink and can't stand it when ...