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Facebook Is Building an 'Empathy Button'
jones_supa writes: The Dislike button has long been the most requested feature from Facebook users. So when Mark Zuckerberg said in a public Q&A session that the company was working on an alternative to things that are inappropriate to "Like," news outlets around the world sprung into action saying that the masses would soon get their wish. Don't hold your breath for a button called "Dislike." On the video, Zuck explicitly says that that's not what Facebook is building, but a way to express empathy towards sad occurrences.
Is teach all Facebook users what the word "empathy" means.
and the most "liked".
...how about a "we don't give a shit about your oversized monetized data-vacuum" button?
Okay, maybe too harsh, and I get it - the website has become dominant, and most folks are on it at least 1-2x a day, if not longer. But honestly, when some tiny website feature becomes breathless news, maybe we got our priorities screwed up?
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
No problem, as long as you give us ANY button besides "like". The community will just USE it as a "dislike" button. You need not call it that. We will do that for you.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
is probably insufficient to bring empathy to the internet.
Is it that hard to just leave a comment?
Even "My condolences. :(" is better than hitting a stupid button. We've become a culture that needs a button for everything; I've made posts that get dozens of Likes or +1s or whatever, and have only one or two commments. People don't want to take the time to say how they really feel.
That's one thing I liked about Livejournal, and miss now. There is no "Like", so people left comments more. Even a simple "way to go!" is better than hitting "Like".
What kind of a sociopath hears "our users want express empathy" and responds with "button?"
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
Watch for Facebook to sell keyboards with an extra row of key for all of their new buttons, along with buttons "to be assigned". I really dislike Facebook, but don't expect them to go away. I wish they would anyway.
Was hoping for Apathy. Is it too late for a "Meh" option?
Pretending this is my office full of bitter coworkers..
i'm just full of it
Having been a long time player of the 1 vs 1 hearthstone game I can tell you that 80% of the time the emote button, which is the only way to communicate with your opponent, is often used in a negative way.
Some of the emotes are:
"Well played": Should be used to indicate a good move by your opponent of that you admit defeat. Often used to indicate "Give up I've already one"
"Thank you": Should be used to indicate a move by your opponent that was beneficial to you. Often used at the start to indicate "Thank you for the win I will get scrub"
"Hello": Should be used to indicate a friendly greeting. Often used to announce a play that swings the game in your favor.
If facebook simply allows any emotion for any post, people will associate certain emotes as "hate".
Laughing at misfortune.
Being sad at accomplishments: "You call that an accomplishment, that is sad"
No matter how friendly you make them, people will associate some actions as less than favorable
I am waiting for something else. How about a middle finger up button?
The problem with like or any button is it does not improve ones relationships, it distances people. Comments get closer, but social media being impersonal, and easy like buttons, there is no true emotional investment and removes one from others. I can't remember the last time I was called or I have called anyone on the phone just to chat. Nothing is new because everything is superficially placed in soundbytes amongst the kitten and baby pics. If someone needs empathy, maybe they need a call, or non-virtual hug.
Sola Scriptura Sola Fide Sola Gratia Sola Christus
Oh, you mean 'insightful'?
>> Hugs. Aw, what's wrong? Sending prayers!!! Hang in there.
And...that's why I quit Facebook years ago.
One of the world's highest-rated places on Yelp is Auschwitz, but obviously people are rating it for historical importance, not as an accommodation. Ideally we would invent a single control that allows a person to rate up or down on as many as three factors at once, say by placing a dot inside a cube.
Jonny Ive, the white phone, please...
Zuck explicitly says that that's not what Facebook is building, but a way to express empathy
I don't care what "Zuck" has done.
And this is why G+'s +1 (with the benefit of hindsight) is superior. you're not giving anything the thumbs up
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
What about:
funny
overrated
insightfull
intresting
underrated
and troll?
bickerdyke
Because people would dump their FB accounts if they could see how much people disliked their post.
Would probably affect advertisers as well.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
How is this much different from "Like"?
People don't want to take the time to say how they really feel.
I have a standard one word reply to far-right propaganda from FB friends that tells them exactly how I feel, "Unsubscribe". I haven't lost any FB friends, and the "offensive material" dried up more or less as soon as I started doing it. Try it on your own pet peeve, you will be surprised at just how powerful one word can be.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
Nobody will know what that button is for. Those that do know won't use it.
Too bad digg.com didn't have one or there wouldn't of been a wait.
I've been on FB for about a year, it is actually a very good way for we boomers to keep in touch with our family and frienemies.
Buttons I would like (pun intended)
-Pseudoscience
-Shill
-Paid propaganda.
-Unpaid propaganda.
-Dog whistle
-Bad medicine
-Inconvenient truth
-Convenient truth
-Mostly harmless.
-Useful idiot
-Useless idiot
-If the author is not on drugs, he should be.
- All of the slashdot mod labels.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
I have a much better idea, how about you add a voting system!
Thumbs up. So-so hand gesture. Thumbs Down.
Problem solved.
And add little smiley buttons next to posts instead of making people have to go in and actively click it from the emoticon list. Who wants to do that? Duuuhh, nobody!
Why not a 'meh' button?
No love for flamebait, off-topic or redundant?
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
Sorry.. Had to quote those from memory and forgot the ones I usually don't receive :-)
bickerdyke
Is it that hard to just leave a comment?
Have you actually bothered to read what such comments tend to look like? "Sending prayers!" "Hugs!" "Our thoughts are with you" and other 100% pure, unadulterated platitudes that are no different than saying "bless you" when someone sneezes. Do those people REALLY think they need to invoke the blessings of a magical being every time somebody sneezes? No. It's a bit of cultural kabuki that gets played on cruise control just like all of the reflexive empathy statements that people might as well be copying and pasting into social media comments when someone shares some difficult news. Clicking a button is just a bit more succinct than spitting out one of those two- or four-word platitudes. Everyone knows that no such response is sincere anyway. "My condolences" ... really? That's NOT better than a button. It's WORSE. Because if you actually meant it, you'd have more to say. But instead, typing out those two words just means that you can't be bothered to say more, but want to APPEAR to care. It's completely transparent.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
... isn't it just a little more appropriate to post, you know, an actual comment expressing your condolences? I realize that we're all pressed for time and have dozens of cute cat pictures to "like" while on FB but if clicking on a button is the extent of your response to someone's loss, illness, etc. ... That's pretty pathetic.
CUR ALLOC 20195.....5804M
not that I want to friend Zuck to use it, not that at all.....
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
"Feels" button
The dislike button will be the biggest asset for companies to know whether the public likes it or not its content. In my agency SA Design, we will use as thermometer the amount of dislikes by post.
I'd prefer a "Shit Happens" button, myself.
I stay away from that data mining, privacy exploiting piece of shit.
There are only 10 kinds of people in the world. Those that understand binary and those that don't.
Damn. STILL no middle finger icon?
Good use for the empathy button :
- New couple
- My new tattoo
- Look at my drawing
- Just married
- We are going to this place for our holidays
- Babies
"I just got fired from my job!" - Do you hit the Like button or the new "I feel ya, bro" button.
You know, since nobody takes a "like" literally by the dictionary definition on FB anymore, how about they just add a dislike button so I can go around hating on stuff. That's all anyone on the internet really wants. It would be the end of stupid, gimmicky, trying to hard marketing campaigns created by 20-somethings with a 2 year degree in marketing that some idiotic corporation hires to drum up pretend interest in their product lines. Confused? "Hey guys, what are your plans for refreshing Pepsi taste while camping this holiday weekend?" In fact that level of insincere marketing disguised as genuine human interest might even need a "go *** yourself" button instead of just dislike.
I just took it to be something object oriented:
($happy_story)->like() = function () { echo 'Yay!!!' };
($sad_story)->like() = function () { echo 'I am sorry' };
(No the syntax above is not any particular language, which is good.)
Or as a layman would simply state, "It depends on the context."
No love for flamebait, off-topic or redundant?
I'm pretty sure that every single facebook post is the last of these.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it