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I would like to use such a button for this fail.
Imagine, if you will, Facebook giving in to pressure from users and installing a dislike button. 500,000,000 people who pay nothing say “YAY!” and begin using it.
Now imagine Company C and Company P (both Facebook advertisers) each having a Facebook page.
Company C gets 300,000,000 ‘dislikes’ and, as a result, pulls their ad money.
Company P gets 300,000,000 ‘dislikes’ and, as a result, pulls their ad money.
Companies C and P were their customers, we the users, were the product being sold.
Facebook, seeing a drop in revenue, begins charging a small monthly fee.
300,000,000 users rise up and quit as a result.
Facebook, seeing a drop in revenue raises rates. More people quit.
WE ARE THE PRODUCT BEING SOLD TO COMPANY C AND COMPANY P.
or we only end up with some more ads, no big deal
Naw. Dislikes are free market research. Instead of hiring survey companies to go out and bother the public, they can just put stuff on facebook, and see how many likes/dislikes are generated. Any company that pulls their advertising because of dislikes is a company chaired by morons, and is going to fail soon anyway.
Agreed, which might be why we won’t see it. Companies pay good money to poll groups of people- whoever controls that sort of information can make a lot of money (see: Google.) It would be foolish of Facebook to just give that kind of power away for free just because a few people want to troll more efficiently.
Don’t forget company Q, who sees the dislikes C and P got and thus avoids the style of advertising that got trounced. In other words, competitors will also see what gets disliked and try to learn from others’ mistakes.
Wait a minute… I Company C Coke and Company P Pepsi??????? lol
A guy can dream…
Would it be ironic if I liked this picture on Facebook?
just copy it and paste it onto people’s stupid wall comments.. lol
Did it die?
I believe the reason they don’t put that is because they are against cyberbullying. Having a dislike button would just make bullying worse.
wouldn’t clicking the ‘so what’ button imply the opposite of its purpose?
Agreed. It’s like reading a ‘news’ article about some celebrity and then typing ‘I don’t care’ in the comments. You will provoke a response along the lines of ‘you cared enough to comment nya nya nya.’
Or maybe you could just begin caring about other people and try to give at least one f**k ?
So, uh, what’s Facebook again?
Yep, this is a definite fail. On the OPs part.
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I deleted my account just today – probably best thing I’ve done in 2012.
You care enough to notify the person you don’t care.
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