I feel that the frowny face emoji on the unfriend button implies negative sentiment from the unfriender to the unfriendee.
A lot of the time, though, people just need to trim their friends’ list down because there are too many “acquaintances” cluttering it and obscuring the actual “friends”, and don’t mean those acquaintances any ill-will.
Also, the way that it’s grouped in the red colour with the Block and Report buttons, which definitely do convey negative sentiment, also makes the unfriend button seem needlessly, well, unfriendly.
I have never been a fan of pushing the positivity. I don’t mean that I don’t like positivity or don’t think that positivity shouldn’t be spread.
Just that these cases remind me of situations where people are like… “Oh that tv show is to imposing on my child so I must call down to the company and change it so it no longer imposes on my child” I guess I see this as “Everyone is gonna perceive it as negativity so we must change it quick before somoene takes offence!”
The idea of unfriending is suppose to be unfriendly that is why its called unfriending.
Frowny face could be a better looking frowny face though I actually also like the waving icon though. I wouldn’t really perceive it as neutral or less negative I would just perceive it as an icon attached to a button that unfriends because its a button and an icon that should not effect weather I feel positive or negative.
I don’t see why BHydden thinks that unfriending has to be a negative action.
Suppose I give someone a teaching game, for instance, and they send me a friend request which I accept, and that this happens thirty times in the course of one year.
If I began with fifteen actual friends on the list, then by the end of the year only 1/3 of that list are people who I’m going to be regularly talking to, and I’ll constantly be receiving noise about people who are online who I’m probably not going to seek out to interact with.
So, why is it a action to remove such people from the friends’ list? I’m not angry with such acquaintances. They haven’t offended or upset me. I’m not making a expression as I press the button. Why make it appear like that’s the case?
It doesn’t have to be a negative action but unfriending is generally suppose to be a negative action. But, friending also doesn’t have to be a positive action. Obviously positivity over negativity. But, things get psychotic when we start neutralizing everything and every situation and everything we possibly can.