Facebook has perhaps become best known for its “Like” button. You can like news stories, videos, and whatever else your friends decide to post in the newsfeed.
With f8′s announcement of Open Graph (Want to know everything that happened at Facebook’s f8 this year? Here you go.), one of the most exciting things announced was that developers can now make up their own verbs and actions people can take on content. Something like “Watch”, “Listen”, and “Read” will surely be seen on buttons in apps everywhere.
All Facebook points out that the one thing Facebook doesn’t want you to ever do is “dislike” something. Obviously Facebook thinks that if you don’t like something, you shouldn’t take an action on it at all. I tend to disagree. Sometimes, people post things that are sad, or upset you. The announcement of a death, or a sad tragedy makes you want to “dislike” something. It’s the perfect opposite of “like”. Facebook is having no part of it, according to the screenshot below, you can’t use the verb “dislike” in your app.
How open is Open Graph? Not completely open apparently.
haha, like they're gonna find and censor every word that connotates a negative feeling. in the end people just go for irony, censor _that_ facebook.
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LikeThere's an RSA animate video that describes this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5um8QWWRvo&feature=relmfu
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LikeDislike = Like NOT function. What about commenting by typing "NOT"?
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LikeYes, it seems that Facebook has indeed blocked the use of the word 'dislike' but the word 'hate' has not been blocked. Now, why one but not the other? Other than 'dislike' have any other works been blocked? Maybe Facebook is keeping 'dislike' for some future propose?
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LikeWe have a lot of negative vibe going around the web. We do not need to put one more thing for others to easily undermine and bully others.
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LikeWe are free to articulate our dislike in the comments at length. I support and am in admiration of Facebook's refusal to add a dislike button. The way I see it, by doing this they are not propagating dislike, nor hate, across FB and the Internet in general. I have a lot of respect for that. Also, people are more open to sharing content if they believe it might be liked. Had there been a dislike, this eventually makes us self edit, less social and may hold us back from sharing if we are slammed with dislikes to our posts.
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