Earlier this week, Facebook launched Reactions globally ? allowing users to select which emotion a post evokes: like, love, haha, wow, sad or angry.
What’s missing in that list" Dislike.
Many, many Facebook users have clamored for a dislike button for years. An October poll by YouGov Omnibus shows that 38 percent of people polled were in favor of a dislike button (compared to 30 percent who wanted Reactions).
People took to Facebook and Twitter to complain about the lack of a dislike button within Reactions.

When Facebook finally gives us Reactions… but there’s still no dislike button option.
? Nyle DiMarco (@NyleDiMarco) February 24, 2016

All we wanted was a Dislike Button. #socialmedia #facebook pic.twitter.com/iRD9xT8mho ? Meg Nordmann (@MegNordmann) February 24, 2016

Facebook product design director Geoff Teahan explained in a very thorough blog post why they’re not developing a dislike button:
We first needed to consider how many different reactions we should include. This might seem like a pretty straightforward task: Just slap a thumbs down next to the Like button and ship it. It?s not nearly that simple though. People need a much higher degree of sophistication and richness in what choices we provide for their communications. Binary ?like? and ?dislike? doesn?t properly reflect how we react to the vast array of things we encounter in our real lives.
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, explained in a Dec. 2014 Q&A session why ...