Comments on: Thumbs Down to Facebook Dislike Button

By: Saints and Spinners

Saints and Spinners — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:45:33 +0000

Rather than a “dislike” button, perhaps there could be a whole drop-down menu of choices to convey sorrow or sympathy over the news posted.

I am kidding, of course.

By: Yorkshire Pudding

Yorkshire Pudding — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:48:41 +0000

Personally I like wallpaper. If picked thoughtfully it can really enhance the appearance of a room. Regarding this “facebook” thing you waffle on about, I’d just say why can’t people simply be satisfied with the faces they have been given instead of envying other people’s faces or seeking plastic surgery to alter their own faces?

By: Goddess of Clarity

Goddess of Clarity — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:04:20 +0000

Scott: It does get a bit muddy since there are at least two possible meanings for “liking” something. It can simply mean “I endorse or support what you’ve said or posted” or it could mean “I am happy and pleased about what you’ve just said or posted.” If someone posts “feeling really sick today” as their status, which of those two meanings would a “like” click convey? My worry with the dislike button is that it would more often mean “I think you guys suck” as opposed to “man, I am sad to hear that.”

Tony: I probably being a Pollyanna about this, but its precisely that low-commitment aspect of the dislike button that has me thinking that it might lead to a needlessly negative atmosphere, especially on fan pages. Of course, people are still free now to say that something sucks, they just have to think about it for a second and take the time to put it in words. We’ve had many occasions where someone will write a negative comment about something we’ve posted, other fans jump in on both sides, and it becomes a discussion. I think that’s pretty cool when that happens, and I think a “battle of thumbs” would be less interesting.

By: Tony Zanders

Tony Zanders — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:18:49 +0000

@scott I went down that same train of thought Scott, but realized that they can’t actually have a “dislike” button, because it would be impossible to discern if the commenter was referring to disliking the person’s comment, or disliking the person for posting that comment.

@lori I challenge the notion of the dislike button creating an unhappy environment on FB. Like Shakespeare wrote, “The mob is fickle.” And if you followed up a wall post with 10 dislikes, that people loved, I’m sure it would still get 10 likes. The value of the dislike button in my head is the same as the value proposition for the like button. It gives fans a low-commitment outlet to express their feelings towards a post. There’s value to that for the person posting, because it can be used as a very quick method of polling your audiences feelings towards something.

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By: Scott Crevier

Scott Crevier — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:48:13 +0000

I completely disagree with you Lori. If you’re going to have a “like” button, then you should also have “dislike” button, for all the same reasons.

If you post a status saying “my dog died today, pretty depressed”, then I “like” that, you could view that as a “thoughtless hurtful diss”. So what you’re claiming would be possible with a “dislike” button is already possible today with the “like” button.

You seem to be assuming that disliking something is always a bad thing, but that’s just not true. Liking something can be seen as good or bad, and the same goes for disliking something.

If we’re not going to have a “dislike” button, then remove the “like” button.