An unofficial way to "Dislike" things on Facebook

Facebook's "like" feature has been around since February, but the massive social network never provided users with a way to quickly voice their opinions going the other way. French developer Thomas Moquet took matters into his own hands by creating a cute (albeit useless) Firefox extension that adds a dislike button to Facebook, letting users who have it installed mark things they don't like.
In order to make the tool work, Moquet had to use his own servers, which keep track of every item that's disliked as well as who clicked it. Any other Facebook users who have the extension installed can then see who disliked it right next to the usual like list.


Feeling grumpy? Add a "dislike" button to Facebook.

There are a few very clear downsides to this system, one being that if the dislike servers ever go down, you won't be able to see what you or others have marked as not liking. It also cannot be seen by other users who don't have the extension installed. Nonetheless, it fits in quite well with the rest of the Facebook interface, peacefully coexisting alongside the likes while adding a bit of snark.
It's worth noting Facebook's exclusion of a dislike button was under the pretense that likes were added as a quick way to replace simple one-word comments. By adding a like button the hope was both to better surface content in its news feeds, as well as cut down on throwaway comments like "this is great!" or "cool."

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My friends and I would like a dislike button to use in a sympathetic way. That is, instead of saying we don't like someone's picture, we would be able to agree that what what someone puts as a status is lousy (illness, a car accident). I do see, however, how it could be abused.

Finally, a dislike button! But I don't have firefox, I have ie7.

Man I wish this wasn't an addon, but a standard feature

I probably might use it, but I can see knowing friends of mine, that it will be abused if it was an actual FB thing.

thnx fer this
im already using it..

someone who doesnt have the add ons wont see it?

They won't be able to.

Also, if you use Google Chrome or Firefox, you can find the "+Social Extension" topic to install it. Many people use it and it's really cool!

yea !
i love this .
thanks for it !
thumbs up !

to put it simple and forward, a dislike will button will do more good than harm, i mean if you dislike something then you simple dislike.
what's so bad about disliking something? it's not the end of the world if you disliked something.