Yeah. Like YO FACE. :O

Not without removing facebook.

I had facebook account since 2006 but didnt use it actively until last year. Some of my friends from work and school didnt have skype so we had to communicate by facebook. Then I got used to it. Looks like I have decent friends who only post about normal things like a new invention, a trip to mars etc. They post when they have a baby, get married.

However, I also met people who are there to TROLL the population. Now this is especially bad news because of people like that. Lets say someone just had a baby and wanted to share this news with his/her friends. Will someone out of the blue be able to dislike this? It would be really annoying.

I dont mind being disliked in political or scientific discussions. Or Game of Thrones posts. people say it clearly when they dont like your post anyways. A dislike maybe less irritating then someone telling you "dont talk shit without knowing anything loser".

On the other end, i believe it will add some negativity to it. I know people will race to dislike eachother. For some reason, for most people its very hard to say "I like your idea" but very easy to say "You suck".

There has been a lot of viral spreading of the news that Facebook is adding a dislike button lately except it isn't true. What they're working on is in response to being frequently asked for a dislike button, but it isn't a dislike button. Rather, it is an "empathy" button of which the details have not been fully decided or at least not fully announced yet. Mark Zuckerberg gave a presentation talking about this where he said that they do not want a straight up dislike button where people can fight to up-vote/down-vote someone's posted content like it is on other sites online.

Instead, they realize that the "Like" button is confusing for things such as when people post content such as "My dog died" or "B.B King died, RIP BB" and whatnot. If someone clicks "Like", are they saying "I like the fact BB King or your dog died", or are they being trying to express empathy or perhaps liking the fact you posted the article they might have otherwise not seen, even if they don't "like" the bad news of the article in question.

So they appear to be working on something that is not a Dislike but rather a "Sorry" button or "I empathize with you" or similar. The details are just not yet known fully.

The reason people think a Dislike button is happening is that Mark's speech started talking about dislike and how that lead them to what they're actually trying to do - but people have a short attention span and just take the first sentence and go with it for a headline. :) I too got mislead at first by it until someone posted a link to what was actually said.

Either way though, it does not appear a "dislike" button is happening at all on Facebook.

Here's a video of Mark Zuckerberg talking about the new feature and explicitly stating they wont be putting a "Dislike" button there: http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/15/the-sorry-button/

Quote: "We don't want to turn Facebook into a forum where people are voting up or down on people's posts. This doesn't seem like the kind of community we want to create. I mean you don't want to go through the process of sharing some moment that was important to you in your day and then have someone down vote it. That isn't what we're here to build in the world."

Quote: "People aren't looking for an ability to down vote other people's posts, what they really want is to be able to express empathy."

Thank you Skeletonbow, that was very refreshing.

If you expect prospective employees to have Facebook accounts, you are discriminating against people whose real names and legal names don't match. Also, why should somebody's out of work activities have any bearing on whether the person is qualified for the job?

As mentioned just above, its not a dislike button. Odd to me that so many people are linking the article and didn't read it. Perhaps this link works:

http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-working-dislike-button-n427851

For the clicky impaired, Zuckerburg said this about a dislike button... "we're not going to do that. I don't think that's socially very valuable, or great for the community.". I'm happy the "empathy" button is coming. Its just weird to have someone post they just lost a loved one and people en mass click "I Like this!".

As for the usefulness of Facebook... its awesome. You control how useful it is by who you follow. If you accept random invites from people you don't know... you get what you put into it. If you actually know and respect all of your followers in real life... well, as I said, it can be awesome. They have some administrative issues, but the content is all on you. Unfriend people that post junk and all can be corrected.

Yeah, whatever happened to "privacy" and "none of your business"?
My boss knows more about me than any company/website on the internet and most people anywhere, but only because I trust and told him. If he'd spy on me, I'd quit. If he would expect me to have a Facebook account, I'd laugh in his face.
People feel the need to shout their stupidity out into the world on every occasion, they are free to do so of course, as long as they leave me alone with it but they constantly try to get me to Facebook so that I'd have to hear about their shit even more often. No, thanks.

This is the Internet. Everybody has an opinion, everybody publishes his opinion and nobody listens to anybody else. I can have that without phographs of spaghetti with tomato sauce every day on top if it.

Why don't they just create a bunch of buttons and then nobody ever has to write anything ever again? "Your post sucked." "You're lame." "Hi there! How are you?" "I don't care what you had for dinner." "I'll like you if you like me." "I'm sorry your mom/dad/grandmother/dog passed away." The possibilities are endless!! They could change the name to ButtonBook.

Good lord, the horror of finding out someone might not actually be impressed with all your self-glorifying posts! No, we certainly can't have that!

Pigeon post FTW! :D

I remember years and years ago a website emerged called Rate My Turd or something like that. So I guess this phenomenon has already been seen through to its logical conclusion.

Don't click this link!
http://www.ratemypoo.com/

You posted that knowing full well that someone would. :D

I was so ahead of the curve that I kept my username when the G+ integration of youtube happened. While everyone else lost it, I kicked back my feet!