Facebook users have for long now hoping to get a “dislike” button on Facebook for those posts and comments which they hate or do not like in some way or the other. It seems that Facebook might just grant this wish for its users too. Wall Street Journal report states that Facebook is working hard to modernize its News Feed which has users posting their videos, photos, other items of interests and most importantly their status updates.
The update Facebook is being considered as an unfiltered News Feed. This unfiltered News Feed would increase the content amount dramatically and the users will be able to see this effect on their homepage. This was told to the Wall Street Journal by the people who had knowledge about the update.
That is not all. The Social Networking Giant is even trying to expand its “Like” button’s functionability so that the third party developers can give an inclusion to other hand gestures. This would allow sharing of information about services and products by a user to their friends. This is being seen as a key element to attract marketers on a large scale to Facebook.
CNET was informed by a Facebook representative that there were tests going on in the Facebook warehouse to check for these News Feed updates, but there was no confirmation on the changes being made to the “Like” button. Facebook said, “We are currently testing a feature within News Feed that gives people the ability to see what their friends are commenting on and ‘liking,’ as these actions are being taken on Facebook.”
He continued saying that only a few selected users of Facebook have been included for the testing purpose and for the numberings on the count of users, he said that only a fraction of a percent were in the test. But the user strength of Facebook is so huge that even a fraction of a percent counts to a really good number. There would be few more tests which would be done in the weeks to come and the Facebook representative said that they are looking forward to make many more improvements and the testing of those tests would even be hopefully on a bigger count.
The Journal noted that there is no clear detailing as to when would the official announcement relating to the update be made, but it expects that the update would be announced at Facebook’s F8 conference for developers. Its a good platform for developers even to know about this “very important” update in detail.
“Like” button had started featuring on Facebook after it was borrowed from Friendfeed which was itrs social-networking rival. February 2009 saw rolling out of this unique feature which allowed users to express their liking for a post, photo, video, message or any other content which was posted on their wall and that of their friends. But it had no option still for a user to express regret or to post a negative approval.
Regarding this “dislike” button, there was a developer who had attempted creating one in 2009 and the extension was for Mozilla Firefox which allowed user to add the “dislike” button to their posts on Facebook. This extension however had many drawbacks because of which it was excluded from Facebook.