The new fad that's sweeping Facebook. Mass-hysteria. 1,000,000 strong for the Dislike Button.
What are we propagating when we petition the creators of Facebook?
I see all these groups (there are far too many) supporting and requesting a dislike button. Stop and think before you click that responsive "join" button. What are you supporting?
Do you so strongly feel the need to trash what other people have to say?
You want to let other people know that what they say is so unintelligent or uninteresting or simply so inappropriate that it deserves LESS than "no comment." Is that it?
If you have a problem with the vulgarity of someone's post, that's a different story. Facebook already allows us to remove friends from our friend list. And if removal is taking it too far, why not "hide" the user from your news feed?
As a sidenote: if any user posts a status update like "Mondays..." or "Hangovers..." or anything to that gist, using the dislike button might be understandable--because things like Mondays and Hangovers are generally accepted as crappy. But in this example, the 'disliker' is actually in agreement with the poster; so using the dislike button this way would be, in a sort, inaccurate.
The more negative responses we give to our friends in the social-network, the less likely it is that they will post; or worse, they might just 'dislike' back. Typing whatever you want as your status-update is one carefree advantage to being in a social-network. You don't expect your friends to 'dislike' what you say.
Well, what do you think? I never understood the dislike button. What am I missing?
