Mark Zuckerberg has outed his team as ‘thinking’ about adding a dislike button to the social network, but it needs to be positive.

The Facebook CEO was speaking at a Q&A at U.C.Davis, and responded to a law student who asked whether such a feature would ever land.

Zuckerberg conceded that the ‘like’ button isn’t always appropriate, for instance when a status involved something to do with sickness or death,

“ There are things in people’s lives that are sad, or that are tragic, and people don’t want to like them . We’ve talked about, for a while, how people express a wider range of emotions, like surprise.”

Despite the like button’s flaws, Zuckerberg is still a firm backer of its primacy.

“The like button is valuable because it’s a quick way to share a positive sentiment,” said the Harvard drop-out.

“Some people have asked for a dislike button so they can say something isn’t good, and we’re not going to do that. I don’t think that’s good for the community.”

He then revealed that if a dislike button was added, he would make sure expressing the negative sentiment ‘ends up being a force for good.’

The Facebook community has long been championing the need for a dislike button, so this could be a glimmer of hope for the expectant masses.

Facebook already supports a number of stickers and emoticons, amongst which a ‘thumbs-down’ icon exists.

Zuckerberg had some good news yesterday after Instagram’s CEO revealed the Facebook-owned image-sharing service had finally trumped rival network Twitter.

Instagram now boasts 300 million monthly active users, edging out over Twitter’s formidable 284 million.

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Via: VentureBeat

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