Wow! 'Dislike' button is about to come to Facebook!

Facebook is to add a "dislike" button to its social network, founder Mark Zuckerberg has said

In a Q+A consultation held at fb's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, the 31-year-old stated the button would be a way for human beings to specific empathy.

He said fb become "very close" to having it geared up for consumer checking out.

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A "dislike" button has been continuously asked by using a few customers since the advent of the now-iconic "like" button in 2009.

"People have asked about the 'dislike' button for many years," Mr Zuckerberg told the audience on Tuesday.

"Probably hundreds of people have asked about this, and today is a special day because today is the day that I actually get to say we are working on it, and are very close to shipping a test of it."

however he went on to say he did now not need it to be a mechanism with which human beings ought to "down vote" others' posts.

Alternatively, it will likely be for instances while clicking "like" on "sad" posts felt insensitive.

Prof Andrea distinctiveness, an professional in social and participatory media at Drexel college in Philadelphia, stated customers will not all of sudden switch on each other's posts.

In an email, she wrote: "they'll use a dislike button to explicit a few negative feelings (like frustration with commercials popping up in their feeds) but I doubt it will reason them to begin wantonly disliking pics of their buddies' babies, dogs, cats and cooking experiments.

"i suspect it'll especially be used to express moderate disapproval, or to specific unity when a person posts about a terrible occasion like a loss of life or a loss."