What would happen if one could anonymously downvote pictures/posts of their "friends"?
Facebook likes are not anonymous, and dislikes wouldn't be either. It's not unlike posting a comment saying “Boo”, minus the trivial inconvenience of having to type.
The FB environment is completely unlike (no pun intended) LW or even Reddit.
So what? The purpose of likes is different from the purpose of upvotes, too, and dislikes would just be the mirror image. (The idea of dislikes first occurred to me before I had ever heard of LW or Reddit.)
As a result of potential dislikes, the amount of stuff people post on FB would go down drastically,
Why? Youtube also has dislikes, and it's not like people stopped uploading new videos or commenting when they were implemented.
and so would the average number of friends per person.
Why?
dislikes would just be the mirror image
It really wouldn't. Negative feedback is much more potent than equal positive feedback. Anyway, the reasons why FB has stayed and will stay away from dislikes (and google+ from -1) have been rehashed online to no end (basically, hate doesn't sell ads or products). Tapping out.
In the style of Jeff Foxworthy's "You Might Be A Redneck If..."
If you're waking up and the characters in your dream start asking you to stay asleep a bit longer because they're running on your brain and they don't want to be consigned to oblivion just yet... you might be on LW too much.
Happened to me this morning, it was kinda weird, and I felt kinda sad. In fairness, it might just be my subconscious brain telling me I need to get more damn sleep.
Anyone have similar stories?