All they needed to do is create simple short-cut links for auto-submitting one-character Emoji comments, and then say that from now on a comment of "thumbs-up" is a Like. That way, any comment that contains a key Emoji character could be interpreted similarly by Facebook without requiring a button press. And, if they decide to track even more Emoji in the future, they could just do it and they'd already have an archive of comment text to build from instead of having to create a new link again.
Oh well, reason (n+1) of why I'm glad I don't use Facebook. It is a more a phenomenon to be observed.
For instance, on this particular post, a lot of people want to say "I dislike this" or "This is stupid". They can say "Oh, well you're angry or sad", knowing full well how bad that looks and that people don't do it.
"A commonly-held belief, first proposed by Dr Paul Ekman, posits there are six basic emotions which are universally recognised and easily interpreted through specific facial expressions, regardless of language or culture. These are: happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise and disgust."
Recent research melds these into just 4, combining fear/surprise and anger/disgust. http://www.gla.ac.uk/news/archiveofnews/2014/february/headli...
As other commenters say, it's really about having positive-only things.
Dislike on this! :)
I'd like to see that, Facebook most likely will never implement that feature due to the obvious flame wars/dramas that the dislike button will introduce
