While its by no means official, at a hackathon last week, a few Facebook employees developed a prototype replacement for the ubiquitous Like button more suitable for status updates of the bummer variety. During a Facebook hackathon held a little while back, an engineer devised a sympathize button that would accompany gloomier status updates, according to Dan Muriello, a different Facebook engineer who described the hackathon experiment at a company event Thursday. If someone selected a negative emotion like sad or depressed from Facebooks fixed list of feelings, the like button would be relabeled sympathize. A couple of years ago, Facebook began allowing articles to be recommended instead of liked if they contained depressing news.
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