Users have always been requesting a way of expressing more varied opinions on posts, since, as Mark Zuckerberg puts it: “When you only have a Like button, if you share a sad piece of content or something that makes you angry, people may not have the tool to react to it”.
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The new pictures are activated by holding down the Like button while using the app, or by hovering over it on the desktop.
Yesterday, Facebook rolled out five new icons known as “reactions” in order to allow users express sadness, surprise, anger, love, and laughter.
In a press release Facebook said, ‘Every day, people come to Facebook to discover what’s happening in their world and around the world, and to share all kinds of things, whether that’s updates that are happy, sad, amusing or thought-provoking. A second or two after you hover the mouse on the button, you will see Facebook’s new reaction buttons pop up. Facebook has also confirmed that the Reactions will have the same impact on ad delivery as the Like button.
In an announcement made on Wednesday, social network Facebook said that it has started rolling out of the “Reactions” feature to its users in the U.S. and other regions of the world. Some of them are unhappy that they did not introduce the Dislike! Our community has been asking for a dislike button for years, but not because people want to tell friends they don’t like their posts.
Facebook has finally, get ready for it, added reaction buttons.
The reactions which were being used in Spain were more than doubled, as they debuted in the month of October.
Initially, Facebook launched the new Emotions in some markets and went out with a positive outcome.
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For starters, brands can now get a more nuanced view of engagement sentiment on their Facebook pages.
