Thumbs down: Facebook is working on a ‘dislike’ button, says Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook, pressed for years by users to add a “dislike” button, has announced it was working on the feature and will be testing it soon.

“We’ve finally heard you,” CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday at a public town hall meeting in Facebook’s hometown of Menlo Park, California.

A question submitted online by a user asked the oft-repeated question of why there were no buttons along the lines of “I’m sorry”, “interesting” or “dislike” in addition to the classic thumbs-up “like” button, through which users show their support for posts by friends, stars and brands on the social network.

“Probably hundreds of people have asked about this, and today is a special day because today is the day where I actually get to say we are working on it and are very close to shipping a test of it,” Zuckerberg said.

“It took us a while to get here... because we don’t want to turn Facebook into a forum where people are voting up or down on people’s posts.

“That doesn’t seem like the kind of community that we want to create.”