Thursday, July 25, 2013

Facebook will soon allow you to ‘dislike’ a post



Social media giant Facebook in a bid to improve user experience has said that it will allow you to hide a post you don’t like from your timeline. While doing this, Facebook will ask you why you’re hiding the post to tailor the right posts to your timeline in the future.

Facebook will soon allow you to 'dislike' a post

Hiding a post from a user will reduce their posts on your timeline. However, if any of your ‘friends’ dislike your post, you would not be notified as there won’t be a dislike button that people want to see.

“Over the next few months, what you will see from us is more on why people like and don’t like certain things in their feed,” Facebook’s Product Manager for Ads, Fidji Simo told ABC News. “We are planning to refine those so users can tell us exactly the reasons they are hiding that piece of content.”

It is expected that this feature will be available to users in the coming months

“If a lot of people start reporting that something is offensive, it’s something we would probably not show to a lot more users,” she explained. “If you tell us that something is uninteresting we would show you less about that, but we wouldn’t use that signal with other users.”

A similar step has been in place for people who want to hide ads on Facebook as they’re asked the reason they want to hide the ad. Facebook CEO has often stood against the direct dislike button even from third party sites connected to Facebook.

Facebook introduced the like button in 2009 and users have been asking for the dislike button to follow but Facebook is not interested in doing that. I think on the business side of things, it is better if Facebook doesn’t introduce the dislike button.

We have heard about how users’ emotions are affected when people like their post and comment on it. Some people even check regularly to see if anybody had liked their post or made a comment. Some users of Facebook reduce their sharing when they don’t get likes or comments on their posts.

Now, imagine what will happen if Facebook introduce a dislike button. Less people will share for the fear of getting dislikes for their post. Less sharing literally means more headaches for Facebook.  Looking at other social media sites, you’ll discover that they don’t allow you to dislike a post. Twitter, Google plus, LinkedIn, Pinterest to name a few.

They’re not keeping it out of their sites for no reason, it is vital for business as social interactions online affect users’ mood in real life.

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