Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Facebook will have an alternative symbol to “like” – Clarín.com

For years, Facebook users have been faced with a dilemma: corresponds put “like” the announcement of someone who fought with your spouse or a job loss?

Facebook working on a solution. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Menlo Park, California nounced today that it is considering alternatives to the button “like” with which users rate the posts from their friends.

The alternatives allow people to express sympathy or empathy, said CEO in a public session of questions and answers today, according to Bloomberg News.

“For years people come asking the button I do not like, “Zuckerberg said.” Finally we listen and we will produce something “

The button” like “dates from 2007 and was originally intended as a signal to mark something extraordinary. It was later extended to users as “an easy way to tell friends that one liked what they shared with a simple click.” Quickly, the cartoon thumbs-up became an icon of the company as well as being the sign with which the 1.490 million users can communicate their approval or affinity. But there is still something to transmit, for example, weigh a death Zuckerberg said.

The CEO gave no details of how the alternatives would be. “What we have been thinking a while,” aseeguró, according to Bloomberg.

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