Do you like or dislike Facebook’s plan for a new ‘Dislike’ button?

Facebook is to add a “dislike” button to its social network, founder Mark Zuckerberg has said.  The idea is that the new button would be a way for people to express empathy.

A “dislike” button has been constantly requested by some users since the introduction of the now-iconic “like” button in 2009.

“People have asked about the ‘dislike’ button for many years,” Mr Zuckerberg told the audience on Yesterday.

However he went on to say he did not want it to be a mechanism with which people could “down vote” others’ posts.

Instead, it will be for times when clicking “like” on “sad” posts felt insensitive.

The CEO said the company has been working on the feature—which would allow users to express emotions other than “like”—for some time because “we don’t want to turn Facebook into a forum where people are voting up or down on people’s posts.”

What are your views?  Is this something you have been hoping for?  Do you have concerns that it will add the possibility of negativity?  Could it be mis-interpreted?