I feel a bit odd about it and I'm not sure. I'm just a bit worried that it encourages young people to communicate their negative feelings in Facebook 'statuses' in a way that could leave them vulnerable to being bullied. I think it's good for young people to have an outlet for their feelings and someone to listen, I'm just not sure the FB public forum is it. I think you have to be quite careful even as an adult about what you share in the public domain but even moreso if you're, like a lot of Facebookers, young.
I'm just worried that the young person's need for 'sympathisers' will lead to increasingly more desperate FB statuses which could leave them open to harsh comments from people on their so-called 'friends' list, as I've seen people experience on my own FB before. I would rather FB advertised safer avenues for young people to get support and advice (maybe it already does?) and I quite like the idea of a 'compassion research day'.
In the circumstances mentioned in the article, eg. the 'like' button changing to 'sympathise' if someone close has died, it sort of makes sense I guess.
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