Is Facebook Set To Get A Dislike Button? Mark Zuckerberg Just Hinted At The New Addition

We all have that friend who shares the inappropriate, desperately not-funny or sometimes just plain mean status updates. We’ve also always wished there was a dislike button for those times. Now it seems Mark Zuckerberg could be introducing a ‘dislike’ option to solve all your problems. In a short video posted to his Facebook page, Zuckerberg addressed the question as why there is currently no option to ‘dislike’ something on the social network: “We’re thinking about it. On the dislike button… there are more sentiments that people want to express than just positivity or that they like something. “A lot of times people share things on Facebook that are sad moments in their lives or are tough, cultural or social things and often people tell us that they don’t feel comfortable pressing ‘like’ because ‘like’ isn’t the appropriate sentiment when someone lost a loved one or is talking of a very difficult issue.” So when will we see the new addition? Zuckerberg added that the ‘dislike’ button will have to be a force for good, and not “demeaning the post”. The news is a complete u-turn for former CTO and creator of the ‘like’ button Bret Taylor, who said in October the button would prove “too negative” and that they would never provide a ‘dislike’ option.