Dislike Button Comes to Facebook

There is no debate that there are over 2.5 million users that support the addition of a “dislike” button to the Facebook feed. Unfortunately for those users, it’s highly unlikely that Facebook will ever add such a button, however that’s not stopping developers from coming up with creative solutions. One developer has created a Firefox plugin which lets users dislike feed stories.

While the dislike actions are only visible to those users who also have the plugin installed, my guess is that there are a lot of users who would like to click on a “dislike” link. Even if nobody else sees that you disliked a feed story, it can be cathartic to just click on the link. So far the plugin has only been downloaded just over 45,000 times, but it wouldn’t be surprising to see this number jump over the coming weeks and months, as the news about the plugin spreads.

Just this morning there were at least two new pages requesting the addition of a “Dislike Button” (dislike button page and dislike button petition page) each of which have over 1 million fans. While it’s clear that a vocal minority of Facebook users would like a dislike button, the best solution for these users is to download the “Facebook Dislike” Firefox plugin.

While the news feed was adjusted after millions of users protested it’s launch, I have not seen any product changes as a result of users organizing on the site since then. That’s not stopping millions of users from joining Pages and groups which request new features though! Do you think a dislike button would be a valuable addition to Facebook or not?

You can view the developer's profile here on Geeks.

Via AllofFacebook
- daveyy.