Facebook experimenting its newly designed "Sympathise" Button.The idea behind is to allow its users to express negative emotions.
Facebook is planning to give its users an alternative option to "Like" button for expressing their unhappy feelings or sympathy in case of death or for any sad or unfortunate events.
This initiative was revealed at Facebook's annual Compassion Research Day when the social network devotes a whole day to sharing various ways it is trying to "build empathy and foster trust" with users. Engineer Dan Muriello said one of his colleagues had designed the 'sympathise' button during a recent hackathon.
Here's how it could work: if a Facebook user were to tag his or her status with a negative emotion (from the social networking site's lists of feelings), the 'sympathise' button would automatically replace the 'like' button.
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Facebook is planning to give its users an alternative option to "Like" button for expressing their unhappy feelings or sympathy in case of death or for any sad or unfortunate events.
This initiative was revealed at Facebook's annual Compassion Research Day when the social network devotes a whole day to sharing various ways it is trying to "build empathy and foster trust" with users. Engineer Dan Muriello said one of his colleagues had designed the 'sympathise' button during a recent hackathon.
Here's how it could work: if a Facebook user were to tag his or her status with a negative emotion (from the social networking site's lists of feelings), the 'sympathise' button would automatically replace the 'like' button.
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