Share Of You

<p class="story-body__introduction" style="border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 24px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Facebook is to add a "dislike" button to its social network, founder Mark Zuckerberg has said.</span></p><p class="story-body__introduction" style="border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 24px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU7yWiSjuHz_SJJSg7S5NzzHW1y2-Iq_xJs6HSoxW-CBKyEUSazfCRaEqjA5JZFSPiXU7qNrX94MydyOYK3wOO1Y7KvYZJgGUhc5Pt6f2nAdfTsvLu8O3oCJE0vKPTunC8YRumGHdlw8s/s640/blogger-image-277730431.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU7yWiSjuHz_SJJSg7S5NzzHW1y2-Iq_xJs6HSoxW-CBKyEUSazfCRaEqjA5JZFSPiXU7qNrX94MydyOYK3wOO1Y7KvYZJgGUhc5Pt6f2nAdfTsvLu8O3oCJE0vKPTunC8YRumGHdlw8s/s640/blogger-image-277730431.jpg"></a></div><p class="story-body__introduction" style="border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 24px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In a Q+A session held at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, the 31-year-old said the button would be a way for people to express empathy.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said Facebook was "very close" to having it ready for user testing.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A "dislike" button has been constantly requested by some users since the introduction of the now-iconic "like" button in 2009.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"People have asked about the 'dislike' button for many years," Mr Zuckerberg told the audience on Tuesday.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Probably hundreds of people have asked about this, and today is a special day because today is the day that I actually get to say we are working on it, and are very close to shipping a test of it."</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">However he went on to say he did not want it to be a mechanism with which people could "down vote" others' posts.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Instead, it will be for times when clicking "like" on "sad" posts felt insensitive.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Prof Andrea Forte, an expert in social and participatory media at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said users will not suddenly turn on each other's posts. </span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In an email, she wrote: "They may use a dislike button to express some negative emotions (like frustration with ads popping up in their feeds) but I doubt it will cause them to start wantonly disliking pictures of their friends' babies, dogs, cats and cooking experiments. </span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I suspect it will mainly be used to express mild disapproval, or to express solidarity when someone posts about a negative event like a death or a loss."</span></p>

Facebook is to add a "dislike" button to its social network

Facebook is to add a "dislike" button to its social network, founder Mark Zuckerberg has said. In a Q+A session held at Facebook...

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<b>Hollywood actress and filmmaker Angelina Jolie Pitt – who is in Cambodia researching a film adaptation of Loung Ung’s Khmer Rouge memoir <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">First They Killed My Father</em> – yesterday visited Phnom Penh’s Tuol Sleng genocide museum and Bophana Center.</b></div>
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<b>Netflix – a US provider of on-demand internet streaming media – first announced the adaptation in a statement released on Thursday in the US.</b></div>
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<b>The book details the Khmer Rouge’s violent takeover of Cambodia and Ung’s years under the communist regime.</b></div>
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<b>Jolie Pitt, whose Cambodia-born adopted son Maddox will also be involved in the production, has co-written the script with Ung.</b></div>
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<b>In a statement released yesterday by Bophana, Jolie Pitt stressed that the book was written from the viewpoint of a young child and that the producers of the film version would go to great effort – working with historians and Bophana and interviewing those who lived under the regime – “to make sure the events in the film are depicted correctly”.</b></div>
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<b>“We will be spending the next few months scouting for locations, casting the film, but most importantly researching every event to make sure it is historically accurate and will pay respect not only to Loung Ung and her family but to every single individual who suffered under the Khmer Rouge,” she said.</b></div>
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<b>Jolie Pitt said that while the book was one girl’s memories, the film would draw on the experiences of others to “complete the story”.</b></div>
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<b>“The intent of this project is not to revisit the horrors of the war, but to bring to the screen characters that people around the world will identify with and empathise with and help to teach people about this country that I love and respect, and the Cambodian culture and family life I so admire,” she said.</b></div>
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<b>The film would be shot in Cambodia from November to the end of January using a Cambodian cast and crew in Khmer, she said.</b></div>
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<b>Jolie Pitt was accompanied on the tours around the centre and museum – once used as a torture and execution centre by the Khmer Rouge – by celebrated Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh, who is a co-producer on the adaptation.</b></div>
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<b>“It will be made for and with Cambodians,” she said.</b></div>
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<b>“I look forward to working with the Cambodian production team, Bophana Production, and all the great local artists, and I am excited by all that I know that they will bring to the project.”</b></div>
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<b>Jolie Pitt shot the action film <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Tomb Raider</em> in Cambodia in 2001 and has had an enduring relationship with the country ever since.</b></div>
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<b>In 2003, she founded the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation, a Cambodia-based NGO that focuses on environmental conservation and rural poverty, mostly in the northwest of the Kingdom.</b></div>
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Jolie Pitt prepares for film adaptation of KR-era memoir

Hollywood actress and filmmaker Angelina Jolie Pitt – who is in Cambodia researching a film adaptation of Loung Ung’s Khmer Rouge memoi...