It’s finally here. You can now “dislike” on Facebook! But before you go hardcore annoying the hell out of everyone else, we unfortunately have to break the news to you that there is no alternative dislike option beside the “like” button on Facebook.
You can however, let the person that you’re talking to know how much you totally hate what they’re saying via a blue “thumbs down” sticker on the social network’s chat feature, Facebook Messenger. Sorry to disappoint, girls.
The “thumbs down” icon for Messenger comes in the latest pack of stickers available for free in Facebook’s Sticker Store. Here’s how you can get the stickers:
1. Go to the chat feature while on the web or mobile.
2. Click the smiley logo in the bottom right of a chat window.
3. From there, click the shopping cart to open “Sticker Store.”
4. In the “Sticker Store,” download the “Likes” pack of stickers.
5. Dislike away!
Check out the stickers in the “Like” pack below:
Though long demanded by Facebook users, the idea of a “dislike” button has been shot down again and again by Facebook. A Facebook engineer, Bob Baldwin said in April this year, “Actions on Facebook tend to focus on positive social interactions.” He added, “Like is the lightest-weight way to express positive sentiment. I don’t think adding a light-weight way to express negative sentiment would be that valuable.”
Although a fully functional “dislike” button remains as a fantasy for now, earlier this month Facebook engineers indicated that they had experimented with a “sympathize” button. Clearly, compared to a “like” option, that button would be more appropriate for when someone posts about a bad day, a death or a breakup.
This could also mean that all the attention-seeking low-lives out there are going to earn themselves yet another way to heighten their narcissism. Yikes!
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