“Because the icon in the Like button is only 14×14 pixels, and that’s a really small area to make the F look nice,” he says. “Zoom into that F.

It’s probably one of Facebook’s most requested features — a “dislike” button that lets users express an emotion other than “like.” News emerged last month that the social network was ...

Facebook has known that it needs more than a "Like" button for some time. ... " What they really want is the ability to express empathy," he said of Facebook's near 1.5 billion monthly users.

Hollywood’s role in the Like button’s saga . And when Goodson was noodling around with his thumbs-up and thumbs-down gesture, it didn’t come out of a vacuum.

Facebook debuted in 2004. The Like button, one of its most associated features, didn’t roll out until 2009. Pretty much ever since then, people have asked for its opposite: a Dislike button. Now ...