Facebook Dislike Button Is Actually Happening
Soon, you’ll be able to express that you don’t like something on Facebook. The social media unicorn is coming, according to Mark Zuckerberg. You’ve asked for it for years and years, and now the company...
View ArticleDon’t Worry, Facebook’s New Dislike Button Won’t Be the Awful, Mean-Spirited...
After years and years of clamoring by a certain subset of the userbase, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook is finally building a “dislike” button. Is this a good idea? Who knows? Facebook does a...
View ArticleTwitter Killed the Favorite, Now It Needs a Save Button
Twitter just killed the favorite – the star you’ve known and loved for years – and replaced it with a “like” in the form of a heart. Does it change a whole lot? Probably not. Fav’ing wasn’t the most...
View ArticleFacebook Becoming Too Big For Anyone To Question
I’ve seen a lot of angst over the past week about Facebook’s moves to open up your data to other applications. To really understand how huge these changes are I had to get away from Silicon Valley and...
View ArticleFacebook Still Dislikes the Concept of Disliking
One of the grand new things coming to Facebook (according to Facebook) is the open graph and "frictionless sharing." Not only does Facebook want to be the place where everything you do around the web...
View ArticleLike My Status or I Will Punch You in the Face
Sometimes, liking a particular status on Facebook can get you into trouble. For instance, let's say your friend posts that she is having the worst day of her life. It might seem as though "liking" that...
View ArticleYou May Soon Be "Wanting" Things On Facebook
It looks like brands with highly desirable products may soon have a new way to promote their wares on Facebook, and it won't cost them an extra dime. According to a find by Tom Waddington, Facebook is...
View ArticleFacebook Working To Monetize The "Like" Button
With Facebook's stock price making a slow recovery following the spectacular disaster that was the social network's IPO, the company is reportedly looking to beef up its revenue. Facebook is reportedly...
View ArticleFacebook Is Putting Words In Users' Mouths By Promoting Content From Pages...
There's a new feature making its way to the Facebook News Feed that has some people up in arms. And while I'm usually the first to defend Facebook against the wrath of whiny, misinformed, overreactions...
View ArticleFacebook Unveils Recommendations Bar For Sites, Says It'll Drive 3x the Traffic
Today, Facebook is launching a new social plug-in that they say will significantly drive up clicks on other articles in your network. It's called the Recommendations Bar, and it mimics some fo the...
View ArticleFacebook Looks to Promote Interest Lists with Drop-Down Like Menu on Pages
If you've recently "liked" a new page, you may have noticed a new menu that appears as soon as you click. For some users, clicking on "like" or hovering over "like" on a page prompts a new drop-down...
View ArticleShould Facebook Likes Be Protected As Free Speech?
Is clicking the "like" button on Facebook, something millions of users do dozens of times every single day, an act of protected free speech? According to the purveyors of the like button, yes, it most...
View ArticleLike-A-Hug Makes Facebook Likes Mean a Little More
Facebook just announced that they've hit one billion monthly active users. As a part of that milestone, the company also told us that in the last three and a half years (approximately), Facebook users...
View ArticleTwitter Replaces "Favorite" with "Like,""Star" for Some Users
Would you rather "like" a tweet than "favorite" it? What about the word "star?" Does that sound better than "favorite?" You should start thinking about which one you prefer, because you may have to...
View ArticleNearly 2,500 Swedes Form Giant Human Facebook Like on Ice
Ever wondered what nearly 2,500 people standing on a frozen lake in the shape of a Facebook "like" looks like? Of course you have. Well, wonder no more. In an attempt to set a world record, 2.493...
View ArticleFacebook Adds Quick Like Reply to Mobile Messages, Prevents You from Having...
It's a small update, but an interesting one. Facebook has added a new like button reply option inside mobile messaging that lets you confirm, like, agree with, basically give a generic positive...
View ArticleKickstarter Gets a Like Button for Project Updates
You could always show your support for a specific Kickstarter project by sharing it on Facebook or Twitter, or of course backing it with some of your hard-earned cash. Now, you can show you're on board...
View ArticleDoes Facebook Need a 'Sympathize' Button?
Sometimes, a "like" doesn't really mean "like" - or it least it's not supposed to come across like that. When you posted that your dog Roscoe died and that you were going to miss him forever, because...
View ArticleFacebook 'Dislike' Button Now A Reality (Kind Of)
Facebook users have long begged for a dislike button, because honestly, there's a whole lot of content to dislike in the News Feed. Facebook has always resisted, however, opting not to spread...
View ArticleFacebook Dislike Button 'Came Up a Lot', but Nixed from the Get-Go
The Facebook 'Dislike' button is a sort of social media unicorn for some users. It's never existed, it's never going to exist, yet there are still people out there clamoring for it. Not only that, but...
View ArticleDislike Button Still Isn't Happening, but Zuckerberg Is Open to Buttons for...
As we've touched on before, you're never going to get a true 'dislike' button. There are a lot of reasons why you're never going to get one, despite much of the Facebook-using public clamoring for one...
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