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    Facebooks Sads

    Sympathy can't be reduced to a Facebook button | Melissa Bradshaw | Comment is free | theguardian.com

    What would it mean to turn sympathy into a button? Apparently Facebook has already done so although has not yet made plans to launch it. The button has been developed as a solution to the difficulty of responding with "likes" to a status where someone posts bad news – as if users were not already able to negotiate this small hurdle.

    Facebook is proposing a menu of negative emotions that you can select when posting your status, choosing from which will allow people to respond with sympathy. But there's already the option of commenting on rather than liking bad news statuses – so if someone posts that they're ill, for example, you can write "get well soon" instead of risking looking like you're happy about their condition. Given the flexibility that already exists, a sympathy button seems both patronising towards users, and as though Facebook is trying to encroach further into the range and distribution of human emotions by turning them all into clickable options.
    so what options do they need?

    Sympathy
    So Sad you're sick - here are some LOLCats.
    Sad you lost your Job - here are some LOLCats.
    Sad you lost your love of your life at 13 - here are some LOLCats.
    Sad you got turfed out by the missus teach you to shag her sister - Here are some naked pussies.
    Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

    #2
    Facebook launches Schadenfreude button
    My subconscious is annoying. It's got a mind of its own.

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      #3
      Originally posted by vetran View Post
      Sad you lost your love of your life at 13
      It's hard to imagine they'd have a special button for pedophiles.
      Originally posted by MaryPoppins
      I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
      Originally posted by vetran
      Urine is quite nourishing

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        #4
        Originally posted by vetran View Post
        so what options do they need?
        WGAS
        DILLIGAF
        and
        YAWN

        would be a good start.

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          #5
          Originally posted by vetran View Post
          so what options do they need?
          Originally posted by MaryPoppins
          I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
          Originally posted by vetran
          Urine is quite nourishing

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