Liking the “Dislike”
The masses have spoken, yet Facebook won’t deliver what we want. Thankfully, some awesome developer somewhere has given into our demands. The “Dislike” button is finally available!! Slow clap!
Now, you can install a Firefox plugin that gives your Facebook account access to the big ol’ thumbs DOWN, allowing you to boldly express your disdain for your ex-boyfriend’s new relationship status, or your roommate’s announcement that she just accidentally knocked your toothbrush into the toilet. So LOL, right? “Dislike”!!!
The only catch? Your friends need to have installed the plug-in themselves to see your “thumbs down”, which could perhaps turn into an incentive for Facebook to finally add their own. Why are they holding out on us, anyway?
A standard “Dislike” button would have come in serious handy this morning while oodles of my Facebook friends were touting the Yankees’ World Series win. While I now consider myself a New Yorker, I was born on the North Shore of Boston and grew up in Connecticut where you’re raised either Yanks or Sox. I would have LOVED to put my big “Dislike” stamp across all of Facebook today. (Me, bitter? Noooo. I just have a tough time sympathizing with a 9-year wait for a World Series win, when my team once waited 86.)
Armed with this new tool, there’s a scary chance my online persona could go from witty to wicked (and not in the “Big Papi is a wicked good hittuh!” sense.)
Use wisely, friends! Or, um, whichever friends I still have next week.
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November 6th, 2009 at 11:37 am
was waiting for this, but u know facebook would never do it. they are for the + not the -…but there is def a need for both voices. pair this up w. Whopper Sacrifice