Facebook has updated its status and it's
something Facebook users may like the
social network plans to add a dislike
button or at least something akin to a
dislike button to the user interface CEO
Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement
during a wide-ranging Q&A at Facebook's
headquarters which was streamed online
but building a dislike function won't be
an easy feat facebook wants to limit the
use of the button to expressing sympathy
for sad or upsetting posts this isn't
the first time the topic of a dislike
button has made the rounds at Facebook
the company has been asked about a
dislike button for years but shied away
from giving users the ability to
criticize others via social media you
know over the years of people asking for
this what we kind of have come to
understand is that it's not people are
looking for an ability to downvote other
people's posts what they really want is
to be able to express empathy but he
admitted it was a surprisingly
complicated task to build the button I
do think that it is important to give
people more options than just like as a
quick way to a moat and and share what
they're feeling on a post so we've been
working on this for a while it's
actually it's surprisingly complicated
to make an interaction that you want to
be that simple but we have an idea that
we think we're going to be ready to test
soon and depending on how that does
we'll roll it out more broadly it's
unclear how the button will work and
where it will factor into the algorithm
that shapes the facebook newsfeed
earlier this year the social network
said it would tweak the algorithm to
account for how long users spent on a
particular post because users often did
not want to like a sad pose
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