Facebook is currently planning to implement a "dislike" button, according to BBC News. The plan was confirmed on Tuesday at a Q&A session at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., where 31-year-old founder Mark Zuckerberg stated that it is almost ready for user testing.
"People have asked about the 'dislike' button for many years," said Zuckerberg. "Probably hundreds of people have asked about this, and today is a special day because today is the day that I actually get to say we are working on it, and are very close to shipping a test of it."
Zuckerberg stressed that he did not want the button to be used to express negativity towards others' posts - instead, its function is supposed to be for expressing empathy for posts where the "like" button feels insensitive, according to TIME.
"That doesn't seem like the kind of community that we want to create: You don't want to go through the process of sharing some moment that was important to you in your day and have someone 'downvote' it," said Zuckerberg. "If you're expressing something sad . . . it may not feel comfortable to 'like' that post, but your friends and people want to be able to express that they understand."
The company has reportedly been working on the feature for quite some time, according to CNBC.
