Facebook Finally Giving Us the Dislike Button We’ve Been Waiting For

Finally. After oodles of changes for Change’s sake, Facebook is working on a change we’ve actually been wanting for a while. Mark Zuckerberg has announced that Facebook is working on a “dislike” button.

At a recent Q&A at Facebook headquarters, Zuckerberg explained that at first, he didn’t want Facebook to become like Reddit with “like” and “dislike” becoming a way to “upvote” or “downvote” friends’ posts. He’s since realized however, that people simply want a “dislike” button so that they can express varying emotions. In situations like supporting a friend when a loved one dies, or responding to a friend’s post about injustice in the world, “liking” isn’t quite appropriate. According to Business Insider, Zuckerberg said that, “What [users] really want is the ability to express empathy. Not every moment is a good moment.”

Indeed. If I could “like” this particular Facebook status, I would.

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Teresa Jusino (she/her) is a native New Yorker and a proud Puerto Rican, Jewish, bisexual woman with ADHD. She's been writing professionally since 2010 and was a former TMS assistant editor from 2015-18. Now, she's back as a contributing writer. When not writing about pop culture, she's writing screenplays and is the creator of your future favorite genre show. Teresa lives in L.A. with her brilliant wife. Her other great loves include: Star Trek, The Last of Us, anything by Brian K. Vaughan, and her Level 5 android Paladin named Lal.

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