{"id":98565,"date":"2015-09-16T08:45:34","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T06:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=98565"},"modified":"2015-09-16T08:45:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T06:45:34","slug":"facebook-is-finally-getting-a-dislike-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/98565\/facebook-is-finally-getting-a-dislike-button\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook is finally getting a &#8220;dislike&#8221; button"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that the social networking giant is working on a \u201cdislike\u201d button.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople have asked about the \u2018Dislike\u2019 button for many years\u2026 and today is the day that I actually get to say we are working on it and are very close to shipping a test of it,\u201d he said, according to The Verge.<\/p>\n<p>The dislike button will not serve as a way to downvote other people\u2019s posts on the social network, though.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it will be a way for people to show empathy for posts which are sad or do not validate being liked \u2013 like someone\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat they really want is the ability to express empathy. Not every moment is a good moment,\u201d said Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on social media in SA<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/91988\/facebook-opens-joburg-office\/\">Facebook opens Joburg office<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/72266\/facebook-south-africa-user-numbers\/\">Facebook South Africa user numbers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to SA social media numbers revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/68536\/sa-social-media-numbers-revealed\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">SA social media numbers revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that they are working on a \u201cdislike\u201d button.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":98567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,10491,45],"class_list":["post-98565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-dislike","tag-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98569,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98565\/revisions\/98569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}