New Delhi: Facebook is mulling adding an alternative to its “like” button: specifically, the "sympathize" button.
It has been a long request of Facebook users who sought a less cheery way to quickly respond to friends' posts, saying that "liking" is inappropriate when someone posts about a breakup or even just a bad day.
During a Facebook hackathon, an engineer devised a "sympathize" button that would accompany gloomier status updates. If someone selected a negative emotion like "sad" or "depressed" from Facebook's fixed list of feelings, the "like" button would be relabeled "sympathize."
However, there is no guarantee that guarantees it'll pop up in feeds soon as a hackathon gives the company a chance for staffers to brainstorm new ideas for site features.
Some significant features that emerged out of hackathons include Facebook Chat, the friend suggester, the Timeline profile pages and the "like" button.
