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Facebook are finally giving us the one thing we’ve all been demanding for years

Published 07:39 16 Sept 2015 BST

Conor Heneghan
Facebook are finally giving us the one thing we’ve all been demanding for years

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Sometimes, a ‘like’ just isn’t enough.

Spend long enough on the Internet and you’ll realise it can be a negative and somewhat unforgiving place and it seems as if the biggest online player of them all has decided to join in on the 'fun'. A 'dislike' button to go along with Facebook’s iconic 'like' button has been mooted for years and, according to CNBC, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg admitted at a recent Q and A that it’s finally going to happen. "I think people have asked about the dislike button for many years. Today is a special day because today is the day I can say we're working on it and shipping it,” Zuckerberg said. Zuckerberg had previously resisted calls for a dislike button on Facebook because he didn’t want to turn it “into a forum where people are voting up or down on people’s posts” but the change of heart is based on a desire to allow Facebook users to “express empathy” where necessary. huggif "What they really want is the ability to express empathy,” he added. “Not every moment is a good moment.” Zuckerberg admitted that the dislike button is proving “surprisingly complicated” to create; we can assure him that plenty of Internet folk will find no complications in their rush to click it quickly and often when it does eventually arrive.
Facebook are finally giving us the one thing we've all been demanding for years