Facebook Launches the Magic Button

[arsenalphan]

Facebook Launches the Magic Button: Scammers, Here’s our Official Dislike for You

Facebook launched the dislike option, which is so far available in the Messenger app. We can finally express disgust and discontent at the things our friends and others consider social media-worthy. If the network decides to expand the availability of the dislike button, companies and advertisers may also get a more down-to-earth picture of their actual Facebook fans.

The “thumbs-down” option is part of a series of “stickers” that can be downloaded from Facebook’s sticker store. The package also includes a heart, a peace sign, a protest fist, a hand holding a bunch of flowers and a glass of champagne.

The “dislike” button has already made history on the social network. Scammers set up pages to promote “dislike” apps since 2009. After installing malicious add-ons, users discovered the apps were tricky and featured unwanted ads.

“It is fun to have a Dislike button, no doubt about it!,” one user complained. “You only get the button on some statuses, though, never on comments – and, worst of all, the app places an ENORMOUS advertisement on the page! I even installed an ad blocker to try & get rid of it – all the normal ads disappeared, but the ‘Dislike’ ad remained.”

Similar scams redirect users to fraudulent surveys. The latest series of scams promising users a dislike button was caught by Bitdefender’s free app Safego a couple of days ago.

 

[Guest]

i have not logged into facebook since 2010

[Kyle_Dimetri]

FINALLY

[marlcarlo13]

i thought it was only on android applications.