Facebook’s ‘like’ button gets ‘angry’ and ‘sad’ as friends

On a smartphone, holding down the like button will bring up a panel that lets users select which reaction they’d like to use, while simply hovering over the like button will reveal them on a desktop computer. Facebook distributes such information about “likes” and has not said whether it would give out information on “reactions”. These emojis will look the same around the world, but phrases such as “love” will be translated.

There were reports that Facebook could be introducing “Dislike” button but according to the company after conducting several surveys and focus group research they came to the determine the types of reactions people would want to use the most. If you don’t see it, be patient and wait for an app update to be pushed to your device.

While some don’t think it’ll make a difference in their lives, there’s no denying the impact Facebook is having on the world of social media.

“Over time we hope to learn how the different Reactions should be weighted differently by news feed to do a better job of showing everyone the stories they most want to see”.

Once you have this, you can start marking older posts as “wow” or “sad”, too.

We asked folks to predict which emoticons they’re most likely to choose, and hearts (for love) easily won the day-but not with all. Ones that get a lot of likes, for instance, will tend to show up higher.

Have you ever thought about disliking something on Facebook, or feeling angry about a certain post? And Facebook has been working on it for quite some time and has now released them. This is what Mark Zukerberg has to say about this Reactions Feature.

Why so long? Besides deciding on how many and which specific reactions to offer, Facebook needed to figure out the right way for people to discover and use it. For instance, a menu might have been harder to find, while offering all six buttons up front might have made it harder to just quickly “like” a post and move on.