[gkoberger]

Why all the negativity here? You can still like things, comment with text, or just not use Facebook. Nobody will ever be forced to use these emoticons, and nobody at Facebook is saying you can only express these 6 emotions while using Facebook.

I also don't get why everyone feels FB owes them a dislike button. It seems like that would be a bad feature.

Personally, I think it's a good change. It won't change Facebook much, but it certainly won't do harm.

[Daishiman]

It's easy to hate on FB when the impact is minimal for each user and not really felt too consciously.

On the aggregate, however, I see it as a horrendously difficult feature to design adequately.

[evolve2k]

I think the frustration is that around a month ago Zuckaberg himself was hitting the media to drum up speculation, "Is it time to add a dislike button". I think it's more a matter of failure to deliver on said hype as expected.

Simply, for around a month we've been challenged to consider, is a dislike button something you might use? "Ok I suppose YES". Well then here's the new features. "Wait?! Where the dislike button you mentioned?". "Dislike! And crap that reminds me you didn't add the dislike button I want to use right now to dislike that you left the button out!!"

[gkoberger]

He can't control what the media writes. For example, the article was titled "Facebook working on 'dislike' button, Zuckerberg says", but here's the actual quotes from that exact article:

"It's important to give people more options than just 'like'" to help express empathy and sympathy, Zuckerberg said. "Not every moment is a good moment."

"Some people have asked for a dislike button because they want to say, 'That thing isn't good.' And that’s not something that we think is good for the world. So we’re not going to build that," Zuckerberg said at the time.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/09/15/facebook-worki...

[evolve2k]

I think you may have missed my point. I was addressing your comment "I also don't get why everyone feels FB owes them a dislike button. It seems like that would be a bad feature."

I don't like the idea of a dislike button myself but was commenting that unfulfilled expectation was the thing that lead the peanut brigade to whining.

[hudell]

Even when Zuckerberg said that, I think he had made clear that he wanted something for the situations where "liking" is not appropriate. I still think that ignoring is much better than disliking.

[evolve2k]

Agreed. TLDR Media Hype led to unfufilled expectation leading to whingers.