These updates are either happy, sad, amusing or thought-provoking but unfortunately users had only two options, either to press the like button or to comment on it to express what they feel at heart.
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Yesterday, Facebook rolled out five new icons known as “reactions” in order to allow users express sadness, surprise, anger, love, and laughter.
More than a year Facebook was conducting a global research including the groups and surveys to determine the reactions of people who are using stickers and would want to use most.
Facebook has already been testing out the Reactions in a few markets since previous year.
For those using the Facebook’s iOS or Android app all you have to do is hold down on the like button and the new emoji reactions would appear.
In the past, there were times when a friend posted a sad status, or disappointing image and it never felt right to “Like” the image. Reactions are shown underneath a post in the same way that likes are with the numbers for each reaction listed next to each one.
“Liking” a post is still the default option.
Should Reactions prove successful, Facebook’s real win will be the data bonanza the feature yields.
The dislike button, a feature heavily requested by users for years, was not added. If someone posts bad news, for example, you want to acknowledge that you saw it. But a Like button not only falls short a lot of times, it can be downright inappropriate. Some people complained because they could not see the new emoticons, but other expressed unconformity that Facebook did not launch a “dislike” button.
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Users can select one of the five new emotions by pressing down on the Like button on mobile devices and hovering over it on a computer desktop. For this, Facebook added quickly expressing reactions which are an extension of the Like button.
