New Facebook Reactions buttons

Do you think Facebook likes are too dull?

New Facebook Reactions buttons are available to say more.  

Every day, people go to Facebook to discover what’s happening in their world and around the world, and to share all kinds of things, updates that are happy, sad, funny or thought-provoking. News Feed is the central way you can get updates about your friends, family and anything else that matters to you, and the central place to have conversations with the people you care about. Facebook has been listening to people and got to know that there should be more ways to easily and quickly express how something you see in News Feed makes you feel. That’s why Facebook is launching Reactions, an extension of the Like button, to give people more ways to share their reaction to a post in a quick and easy way.

To add a reaction, hold down the Like button on mobile or hover over the Like button on desktop to see the reaction image options, then tap either Like, Love, Haha, Wow, Sad or Angry.

Facebook understands this is a big change, and they want to be thoughtful about rolling this out. For more than a year they have been conducting global research including focus groups and surveys to determine what types of reactions people would want to use most. They also looked at how people are already commenting on posts and the top stickers and emoticons as signals for the types of reactions people are already using to determine which reactions to offer.

They have been testing Reactions in a few markets since last year, and have received positive feedback so far. They’re excited to offer it to everyone who uses Facebook around the world. They will continue listening to feedback to make sure they have a set of reactions that will be useful for everyone. They hope you’ll enjoy the new Reactions!

Do you think that Facebook has chosen the right emotion buttons? Do they express your emotions? What other emotions would you like to express? Let’s learn some more emotion adjectives.