The internet, home to literally thousands of social media site such as Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tumblr, Tinder and I'm sure thousands more that I don't know of. Then you have all the other internet based ads and other junk websites that you may accidentally stumble upon and most of them all have the "Like" and "Share" buttons.
Even if you don't click on a like or share, the website saves your browsing history and puts ads on other sites that you do frequent, I was looking to buy a stove and was just looking for prices when I decided I would wait a while instead, then, while browsing a gaming site an ad popped up for the exact same stoves I was looking at. No no no no no.
There should be a dislike button sitting right along side the like and share button, there shouldn't be a long and lengthy process to define your negative feelings. Why can't I decide if I don't want to see a certain ad or the same stupid emotional poem a hundred times? Especially if it doesn't relate to me at all.
One of my friends kids were over and were looking at decorations for their hair online, and now I get ads showing me the same products, and what I would really like is a great big dislike button so I don't have to see them anymore. The same goes with the junk on Facebook, Give me a dislike button and stop showing me this garbage, it has literally made me not enjoy the experience of social media.
You can go on and tweak settings, get ad blockers, edit your lists of what you do and do not want to see, check off people that you want to see less from, but why is that such a painful process? This could be made so much more user friendly if there were simply a "Dislike" button on everything we see.
Ad companies would benefit from it and could make better ad campaigns, or find out who their target groups are and what types of people. In this day and age what people really need is A Dislike Button.
Scott Goerz
