Here’s What Facebook’s ‘Dislike’ Button Might Be

Last month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that the social networking site were looking into a form of “Dislike” button, something many people have been calling for, for a few time. The company had always been asked for a “dislike” button, but wanted to avoid something that negative.

The “Like” button was rolled out in 2009 and enables 1.49 billion Facebook users to express positive reactions.

The Facebook “Like” officially has company – but it’s not a “Dislike” button. Possible choices include “Love”, “Haha”, “Yay”, “Wow”, “Sad”, “Angry”, and the more traditional Like button.

Techcrunch.com reports that Facebook will now have “reactions”, which are a new set of six emojis that will be alongside the original thumb-up “like” button. Adam Mosseri, News Feed’s product manager, said that Facebook studied which comments and reactions were most commonly expressed on the platform and went with those options for this initial trial. To express the reaction, people have to long press or hover over the Like button. Also, while English is spoken in Ireland, the Spanish market will test how the wordless “Reactions” function with non-English speakers.

The new feature which is right now under experimental stages in Spain and Ireland will be heading it’s way soon to the others after getting Feedback from the test stage.

As with Facebook’s current Like button, the new reaction icons will appear on posts.

What do you think of the reaction emoji?

“What they really want is the ability to express empathy”, Zuckerberg said. Not every moment is a good moment, and sometimes you just want a way to express empathy.