We all have our taste,
opinion, preference and views over each and everything thing present in the
world. Some let their choices known to the world pretty boldly, while other
just nod along with crowd and don’t let their likes known. We all have likes
and dislikes, but when it gets contradicted with someone else’s opinion, two
things happen... either we let go off the scenario by saying “to each his own”
or we fight with other persons to convince them about our choices.
So why am I imposing
these “opinion” over you.. ?
Well, earlier this month,
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that his company is trying to introduce a new
button in FB which would help the user to let them express empathy. He
discarded the idea about launching the much demanded “dislike “button along
with the “like” button. Now, how this new button will work, I don’t know. But I
would surely like to imagine the consequences of the infamous “dislike” button.
As I said earlier, every
person has got their own taste. So if we want to get something reviewed by our
friend in Facebook, we have to solely depend upon the comment section to read its
review or count the number of “likes” it get. If we compare it with Youtube, it
has got a dislike feature. There are times when we definitely want constructive
criticism from people to let us know whether our work is good or bad. Now
imagine there is an artist who publishes his work in Facebook. He definitely
got some like, but he is unaware of people who didn’t like his work. He is a
busy man so doesn’t get time to read all the comment posted in it. Thus he is
not able to receive feedback properly. Now if he post the same thing in Youtube
, with just a glance he would come to know how many views he got, how many people
liked it and of course how many disliked it.
You all have to
understand here that it is just a minuscule aspect that I’m talking about. But
it is true that receiving honest review is hard without the “dislike” button.
Let’s talk about the other side of the coin. What if the “Dislike” feature is
actually introduced in it? I don’t know how much havoc it will create, but some
things which I think that would definitely happen are....
“like” if you are Indian
and “dislike” for Pakistani or vice versa
“like” if you are Hindu
and “dislike” for Muslim or vice versa
“like” if you are straight and “dislike” for
LGBT or vice versa
“like” for Clinton and “dislike”
for Trump or vice versa
Let me get myself clear
first.. I don’t dislike any of the eight community/people mentioned above. I’m
just using it as an example to explain about what could be the possible outcome
of the dislike button. I’m sure all of you must have come across such post
which spread hatred amongst a particular group of religion/race/creed/nationality
or even paint a person in wrong light.
At the time when cyber
bullying is at its peak, introduction of the “dislike” button will give more
fuel to hate. Social media is filled with those people and thankfully they don’t
have access to this mischievous button yet !!!
In the end, I want to
conclude that, it is for good that we don’t have “dislike” button in most
social media. I can’t imagine how bad I will feel if someone dislike my post and
expresses it openly over social media via the count of the number of dislikes I
have got. Having said that, I always welcome criticism and feedback from all my
readers around the world!
So, while Prime minister
of India, Narendra Modi ,gets interrogated by the Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook,
Do you still “like” to “dislike”??
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