Facebook to start testing emoji reactions, not a ‘Dislike’ button

Engadget en Espanol first reported and TechCrunch confirmed with Facebook that the company will commence testing the new feature in Ireland and Spain tomorrow (Friday), reports Mashable.

With the new expressive like button, you’ll be able to express love, laughter, happiness, shock, sadness and anger.

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.

Here are the new Facebook Reactions, These Facebook Emoji will fill the place of a Facebook dislike button. The set of reactions published by Engadget does not include the thumbs-down “Dislike” button that many had expected at the time of Zuckerberg’s announcement, though it does feature angry and sad smiley faces. Facebook will infer if the user would want to see more of that type of post according to the Reaction used for the post.

Zuckerberg’s comments last month, which many users took to mean the social network was working on a “dislike” button, spearheaded a debate over whether it would cause cyberbullying and negativity on the site. Cox makes clear that this is not a Facebook dislike button.

Reactions will debut as part of a small pilot program, but could eventually roll out to the hugely popular social network’s 1.49 billion monthly active users.

“People have asked about the dislike button for many years”, he said, WIRED reported.

Facebook is going “Inside Out” on the Like button, adding a range of new emotional reactions to the iconic thumbs-up icon it launched in 2009.

As Zuckerberg indicated earlier, it appears that the choices are created to move users away from a value judgment about whether a post is good or bad and toward an expression of the emotions the post elicits.