Why will there never be a Dislike button

A like button is a sign of agreement, some sort of positive feedback on ones actions. A dislike button is complete opposite. Now you probably ask a question. "yeah so?" If there was a dislike button, the positive impact that Facebook currently has on its users will be gone. Very probably the negative feedbacks will outnumber the positive feedbacks and people would no longer want to be a part of such negative community. It may be hard to understand, why would one little dislike button destroy the whole idea, but that would be only the starting point. Negative feedbacking will very easily lead to cyber bullying, which will completely destroy the main idea as it was meant to be in the first place, to share and spread positive energy (you know what I mean).

Take it this way. You submit a status and you receive nothing but dislikes. What if this happens with all your statuses, what if someone is deliberately trying to humiliate you, so he gives you a dislike without even reading what you did or wrote. All this has to be considered. Luckily Facebook developers are very aware of possible risks (and their huge loss of profit) if such thing as a dislike button was introduced. You can now argue that for example. YouTube has dislike buttons to videos and their comments. Well that is a different story. On Facebook everything you do is rather confidential because you are in a limited circle of people (friends, family, acquaintances) and you choose who to share with. On YouTube you share with the rest of the world and quite honestly you dont care what does John Doe living on the opposite side of the world think about your video or comment, do you?

Software and internet Add comment( 1 ) Added on: 2010-07-27 At: 15 : 49

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