# Facebook getting a dislike button **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 15, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-getting-a-dislike-button/731404 "2015-09-15T20:33:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hedda\_Rosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hedda_rosa/32/1204_2.png) [@Hedda\_Rosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hedda_Rosa)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-getting-a-dislike-button/731404/1 "2015-09-15T20:33:38Z")
Must say one of the things I like best about this place is the utter lack of likes and upvotes/downvotes and other similar nonsense. > **[Facebook Is Finally Making a 'Dislike' Button](https://time.com/4035281/facebook-dislike-button/)** > > Mark Zuckerberg said so Tuesday I’d say its “worms, meet open can” time. ---
**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-getting-a-dislike-button/731404/2 "2015-09-15T20:43:26Z")
Maybe next they will implement my idea of having an “enemies” list along with your friends list. And then suggest friends from the enemies of your enemies. ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-getting-a-dislike-button/731404/3 "2015-09-15T20:45:00Z")
I dislike the dislike button. No benefit at all. ---
**Author:** ![brovolone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e4f/32.png) [@brovolone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brovolone)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-getting-a-dislike-button/731404/4 "2015-09-15T20:47:01Z")
I almost want a Facebook now. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-getting-a-dislike-button/731404/5 "2015-09-15T20:47:35Z")
I won’t be satisfied until Zuckerberg finally implements my Smell-o-Vision function that I sent to him three years ago. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-getting-a-dislike-button/731404/6 "2015-09-15T20:47:37Z")
> [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](#): > > I dislike the dislike button. No benefit at all. Those who dislike a post should be able to be as lazy as those who like a post. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-getting-a-dislike-button/731404/7 "2015-09-15T20:54:43Z")
You should be able to dislike likes. I don’t get likes and it seems to just be a way to give people attention without having to respond. I think I’ve “liked” things exactly twice on Facebook. I don’t need to see things that other people have liked. > [@Hedda\_Rosa](#): > > Must say one of the things I like best about this place is the utter lack of likes and upvotes/downvotes and other similar nonsense. But if I could like something, I’d like this. I’ve posted on another website with up/downvotes (not reddit). It doesn’t bother me to get downvoted so much as be baffled when it’s a completely politically/morally/religiously/etc. neutral statement. > [@leahcim](#): > > Maybe next they will implement my idea of having an “enemies” list along with your friends list. And then suggest friends from the enemies of your enemies. Glad to see you’re feeling hale and hearty, President Nixon. I heard that you died. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-getting-a-dislike-button/731404/8 "2015-09-15T21:08:09Z")
I never much liked the idea of the “like” button. I feel weird liking a post where someone has posted about something tragic. That said, I don’t think a “dislike” button will help out much and will bring on a whole new slew of problems. I think an “agree”, “disagree” and “check your facts before posting this dreck you mindless moron” button would make more sense to me. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-getting-a-dislike-button/731404/9 "2015-09-15T21:29:50Z")
They need a lot more buttons than “like” and “dislike” to appropriately express the breadth of human emotion. Such as buttons for “I’m feeling conflicted about this”, “Meh”, “Lulz”, “What does that even mean?”, “Simply cromulent”, and “Death to the infidels!”, at a bare minimum. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-getting-a-dislike-button/731404/10 "2015-09-15T21:33:58Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > They need a lot more buttons than “like” and “dislike” to appropriately express the breadth of human emotion. Such as buttons for “I’m feeling conflicted about this”, “Meh”, “Lulz”, “What does that even mean?”, “Simply cromulent”, and “Death to the infidels!”, at a bare minimum. You forgot “I just like to push buttons.” ---
**Author:** ![Carryon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@Carryon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carryon)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-getting-a-dislike-button/731404/11 "2015-09-15T23:43:51Z")
I want an absolutely hate button ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-getting-a-dislike-button/731404/12 "2015-09-16T00:06:57Z")
I’d be rather keen for a Milgram button. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-getting-a-dislike-button/731404/13 "2015-09-16T00:09:19Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > I never much liked the idea of the “like” button. I feel weird liking a post where someone has posted about something tragic. That said, I don’t think a “dislike” button will help out much and will bring on a whole new slew of problems. I think an “agree”, “disagree” and “check your facts before posting this dreck you mindless moron” button would make more sense to me. I hate that too. Some one will post about their niece or nephew dying of leukemia and then say we need to pay more attention to this disease. Hitting “like” might lead someone to think you like the death part and not the disease part of the post. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-getting-a-dislike-button/731404/14 "2015-09-16T00:35:33Z")
As long as they have a [block everything this person ever did/will post so nobody on Earth ever has to see/hear from them again] button all the rest are superfluous. \*If \*they implemented that I just might be willing to get a facebook account so I could go on a vigilante rampage with my new button. ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-getting-a-dislike-button/731404/15 "2015-09-16T00:52:49Z")
There’s no rule that says you have to hit the “like” button on sad posts about someone who is ill or dying. You can just as easily make a brief comment or not do anything at all. To me the “like” button can also serve as a general “I’ve read this and I acknowledge it” type of function. I hate the idea of a “dislike” button. I think it will encourage a lot of negativity and misinterpretations, and I don’t want more of that on Facebook. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Me](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mr.Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Me)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-getting-a-dislike-button/731404/16 "2015-09-16T00:52:49Z")
[Dislike!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkCir50kyFw) (nsfw) ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-getting-a-dislike-button/731404/17 "2015-09-16T01:02:20Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > I hate that too. Some one will post about their niece or nephew dying of leukemia and then say we need to pay more attention to this disease. Hitting “like” might lead someone to think you like the death part and not the disease part of the post. A friend of mine had a death in the family just this week. The post where she announced this DIDN’T say anything about raising awareness of whatever, it was just a brief post saying what had happened. Some dumbass still hit “like” on it. I’m sure this person did not actually mean they were happy about the news, but everyone else who responded managed to spare a few seconds to type “I’m so sorry to hear that” or something. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-getting-a-dislike-button/731404/18 "2015-09-16T02:47:53Z")
When my dog died I wrote at the end of my post “you can ‘Like’ this. I know what you mean.” ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-getting-a-dislike-button/731404/19 "2015-09-16T02:49:42Z")
It’s about damn time! ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-getting-a-dislike-button/731404/20 "2015-09-16T05:00:08Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > I never much liked the idea of the “like” button. I feel weird liking a post where someone has posted about something tragic. That said, I don’t think a “dislike” button will help out much and will bring on a whole new slew of problems. I think an “agree”, “disagree” and “check your facts before posting this dreck you mindless moron” button would make more sense to me. Count me in for the _“check your facts before posting this dreck you mindless moron”_ button, where do I sign the petition? Recently I’ve had been arguing with some people like that; to my complete and utter lack of surprise, when checking another forum were the same people congregate, I see this from one of the in-groupies “We make posts to get likes so we can feel good about ourselves…” :smack: The “Like” button ends up with people acting like pigeons in a [Skinner box](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-getting-a-dislike-button/731404.md?page=2)