A Facebook engineer has come up with a solution for such a situation: a ‘sympathize’ button, The Huffington Post reported.

It was learned this Thursday from Facebook’s annual Compassion Research Day when the social network devotes a whole day to sharing various ways it is trying to “build empathy and foster trust” with users.

Engineer Dan Muriello said one of his colleagues had designed the ‘sympathise’ button during a recent hackathon.

Here’s how it could work: if a Facebook user were to tag his or her status with a negative emotion (from the social networking site’s lists of feelings), the ‘sympathise’ button would automatically replace the ‘like’ button.

And as much as users might want one, it seems Facebook is never going to add a ‘dislike’ button.

The ‘sympathise’ feature is not making its way to the site “yet”, said a Facebook spokesperson.

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Until then, its users will have to carry on with awkward silences.