Facebook changes �like� button
Its not a dislike button, but its the next-best thing. Facebook has changed its like button to a range of emotions including love, surprise and sadness.
After testing the new option in some countries, Facebook is making the change official. It means that instead of just being able to like posts, users will be able to express several different feelings.
Facebook members have long called for a dislike button and the new options called Reactions by Facebook are the closest thing.
When pressing down on the like button, a pop up will appear offering six different reactions. Their proper names according to Facebook are Like, Love, Haha, Wow, Sad and Angry.
Hovering over one of the options animates them the Haha face laughs, for example and releasing your thumb on mobiles or clicking on desktop selects that particular reaction.
Not everyone has received the upgrade yet, but they are expected to arrive in the coming hours.
Weve been listening to people and know that there should be more ways to easily and quickly express how something you see in News Feed makes you feel, said Facebook Product Manager Sammi Krug.
Facebook has been struggling with how to represent more complex emotions ever since launching the like button in 2009. Many people will want to express sympathy with a status about a relationship breakup or family tragedy, for example, but not to approve of the event with the like button.
Reactions are also likely to make it easier for Facebook to better target posts, with reactions being a more accurate way of determining somethings value, although all reactions will count as likes at the beginning, according to a message on Facebooks blog for publishers.
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, Facebook said.
Source: The Telegraph
