Amazingly, Facebook has grown from a Harvard University start-up to one of the world’s most popular social networking website with over 350 million users, according to an open letter posted by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. “It has been a great year for making the world more open and connected. Thanks to your help, more than 350 million people around the world are using Facebook to share their lives online,” Zuckerberg said in a blog post.
Zuckerberg added that privacy is still a main issue and the engineers will make improvements to Facebook’s privacy settings. An update, which will be launched in a couple of weeks, will remove regional networks and create some new settings. For example, Facebook plans to add a feature that many users are craving for – the ability to control who sees each individual piece of content you create or upload. Besides that, Facebook intends to make the privacy settings page simpler by combining some settings, a request that is made by many users.
However, Facebook didn’t hint whether the site will introduce a “Dislike” button despite overwhelming requests urging Facebook to implement the controversial button. Yes, a few million people may like the “Dislike” button but I certainly disagree. It’s pointless. Think about it, what if someone took a dislike to you and had the agenda of disliking the majority of your posts. It will just be another feature users will abuse, like the silly poke feature. Of course, what your friends want are praises and likes and not dislikes or criticizing him or her. It’ll create negative vibes, and Facebook doesn’t want this to happen either.