On our high definition screens displaying 16M colors, we are forced by Facebook (FB) to live in the two-tone world of like or no like (Dislike is still not available except for pictures.) 'No likes' has a lot of ambiguity. It could be because people have missed out on your post, or they were ambivalent towards what you said, or they wanted to say something different from Like. That they disliked it is only one of the possible reasons for lack of likes.
While FB still has no plans to introduce a Dislike button for textual posts, it has introduced a large number of stickers. After all in the real world we have umpteen kinds of reactions to what we see or hear. Stickers wonderfully map a large nunber of these reactions into icon sized cartoons.
(Those who are not yet using stickers can get and use stickers by clicking on the smiley in the comment box that is appended to each post on the news feed page.)
Despite the wide range of stickers - new age emoticons - there is a problem with them. Button clicks are captured and aggregated by the software and the final processed figure is presented for your easy comprehension. The tabulation and aggregation has to be done by the user himself when the response is through a sticker. And to top it you have to find a wide range of column headings for capturing and summarizing sticker responses. These could be - Dislike, Damn you!, Terrific!, LOL, ROTFLMAO, Superb et al.
So, my question to you dear reader is this - If FB were to agree to put a whole dashboard of buttons for choosing a response to a post, how should these buttons be labelled? I have already given my suggestions in the preceding paragraph.
I may add that there are many emotional posts where both Like and Dislike are absolutely inappropriate. Appropriate responses might be Empathize, GWS (Get Well Soon) etc. Thus apart from multiplicity of buttons probably we also need multiple dashboards for grouping the buttons. The dashboards could be titled - Regular Responses, Emotional Responses, Satirical Responses etcetera. How many more can you think of?
While FB still has no plans to introduce a Dislike button for textual posts, it has introduced a large number of stickers. After all in the real world we have umpteen kinds of reactions to what we see or hear. Stickers wonderfully map a large nunber of these reactions into icon sized cartoons.
(Those who are not yet using stickers can get and use stickers by clicking on the smiley in the comment box that is appended to each post on the news feed page.)
Despite the wide range of stickers - new age emoticons - there is a problem with them. Button clicks are captured and aggregated by the software and the final processed figure is presented for your easy comprehension. The tabulation and aggregation has to be done by the user himself when the response is through a sticker. And to top it you have to find a wide range of column headings for capturing and summarizing sticker responses. These could be - Dislike, Damn you!, Terrific!, LOL, ROTFLMAO, Superb et al.
So, my question to you dear reader is this - If FB were to agree to put a whole dashboard of buttons for choosing a response to a post, how should these buttons be labelled? I have already given my suggestions in the preceding paragraph.
I may add that there are many emotional posts where both Like and Dislike are absolutely inappropriate. Appropriate responses might be Empathize, GWS (Get Well Soon) etc. Thus apart from multiplicity of buttons probably we also need multiple dashboards for grouping the buttons. The dashboards could be titled - Regular Responses, Emotional Responses, Satirical Responses etcetera. How many more can you think of?
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