What is your reaction to Facebook’s ‘Reactions’?
In the modern connected world, what do you do first when you see something you like, or something that angers you, or something that makes you indescribably sad?
Chances are you’ll write about it, click a snap or shoot a video and share it on Facebook. When you see such posts, haven’t you ever felt you wanted to do more than just ‘like’ them?
*Slow clap and drumroll*
Enter Facebook Reactions, an extension of the ‘like’ button.
The social network had rolled out a pilot of ‘Reactions’ — which allows users to select from seven emotions including ‘Angry, sad and wow — in Ireland and Spain in October. But now, it has been introduced globally.
The five new buttons appear as animated emoticons that pop up when the ‘Like’ button is held down on mobile devices. The buttons appear on desktops when users hover over the ‘Like’ button.
“We will initially use any Reaction similar to a Like to infer that you want to see more of that type of content,” Facebook said in blog post.
The company said that over time, it hoped to learn how different ‘Reactions’ should be weighted differently by the Facebook News Feed to customise it for individual users.
Facebook said ‘Reactions’ would have the same impact on ad delivery as ‘likes’.
Haha yes MM likes his own posts and I thought I was alone on that too... But yeah, jokes aside, it's sad that people today can't type a ' love it' or a 'meh'; and need a one click emoticon to help them...
Lol, I also like MM posts.
You are not alone, brit.
Haha .. I thought I was the only one who noticed that :O)
They even use the 'like' button on QL, and MM always uses the 'like' button for all of his comments himself.
Because people are senseless idiots.
Why do people feel the need to show "feelings" or "reactions" on a social media site ?