The One Verb Facebook Still Won't Allow

Facebook has opened the floodgates for variations on the like button, but one verb remains anathema: Dislike!

We’re seeing the tip of the proverbial iceberg in spinoffs from the like button, as Facebook allows the addition of more verbs describing the relationship between persons, places and things on the social network.

But the verb that users want the most remains anathema to advertisers and therefore to Facebook itself: dislike.

This obviously predates the whole dialogue about new verbs becoming part of the open graph.

While Facebook made a huge step in allowing users to unlike pages in order to stop receiving updates in news feeds, the only way to proactively dislike something you never liked in the first place is by installing a browser extension.

And even with browser extensions, dislikes are only visible to those who have also installed the extension; the availability of the thumbs-down option has motivated a fair amount of installations.

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