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Facebook Expands the 'Like' Button to Offer Six Different 'Reactions'
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Got rid of Facebook and Messenger app and my phone's battery life has increased by 30%. If I need to look at FB for any reason (very slim these days), I will do it in safari. FB can **** right on off.
It's political season here in the states. What we need is the Dislike button with a series of reactions for all the idiots that post utterly stupid things until November 9th when their sanity is suddenly, almost magically, restored.
Is my description redundant enough? I hope so...
Is my description redundant enough? I hope so...
yeah! Who cares about Facebook!
Oh...maybe the hundreds of millions of people that use it every day?
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This is good news. It's great to be able to respond more appropriately. "Oh, your grandmother died?" LIKE; "Oh, North Korea has launched a test missile?" LIKE. I'm not sure that we need all 6 emotions, but like, sad, and angry are needed. I'm not sure how I feel about how they all look though. The faces all look a little off, but of course time will make us used to them.
No, facebook has been saying for a while they don't want to implement a dislike feature, because that will have a more negative connotation.
Click and hold.
That was a kind of super dumb thing to say - you can do a lot more with a mouse and keyboard than you can with just taps and drags. It might be less intuitive, but having the ~60 keys of a standard keyboard gives you thousands (possibly millions? Haven't done the math on this) of options. Versus a few dozen on a touch screen.
I feel like Facebook went quite overboard with this. Love and Laugh are completely unnecessary - they mean roughly the same thing as Like. I think Surprise can also fall under Like.
Sad makes sense. When someone dies, "Liking" it doesn't seem like the right action, but you want to express your support. Sad seems to satisfy that - you're commiserating.
Anger kind of makes sense... except I feel like it always sooner or later reverts to sadness.
So I would only add in a sad button. And it makes no sense for a post to have both "Likes" and "Sads" on it, so I think a simpler, better way of implementing this would be to just have Facebook process the post, automatically detect if it's a "Likeable" topic or not, and replace the "Like" button with the "Sad" button in those cases automatically. Maybe allow for a manual override when the automatic detection is wrong.
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Only 2 of them look off to me. I see the "Wow" reaction and think it's going "Ooh!" while the "Angry" reaction looks more like "Asleep"
Ah, that app that's so complex that Apple's own development tools can't even handle and to which a whopping 3,500 people contributed.
Dislike is not hate. Dislike is a normal, necessary, and frequently constructive part of human interaction. I never understood why so many websites (including this one) decided that people's egos are apparently too fragile to handle a little disagreement.
For a example of dislike in action, take a look at Ars Technica. Comments downvoted into oblivion (hidden due to the ratio of downvotes) are almost without fail hateful, repeating a thoroughly debunked viewpoint, or just not actually responding to any relevant topics and don't add anything to the conversation. Their comment section is far better for the downvotes.
I'm super excited about this. It's a really great addition. I don't get all the Facebook hate. I understand the complaints, but just ignore them. It can be a great tool for connecting with people.
