FACEBOOK is bringing a slew of new emotions to its hugely-popular social network, thanks to a redesign to the iconic Like button, which is about to roll out worldwide.
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| Facebook is rolling out its solution to the long-rumoured dislike button |
Facebook has confirmed it will be rolling out a new set of emojis – dubbed Reactions – to replace the traditional Like button.
Reactions debuted as part of a small pilot program in Ireland and Spain, before trickling out to Chile, Portugal, the Philippines and Colombia, last year.
But now the Californian social network is ready to roll-out the improved Like button to its 1.49 billion monthly active users.
According to a report in Bloomberg, Facebook will begin pushing out Reactions to the UK and the rest of the globe "within weeks."
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| Negative emotions, including sadness and anger, are included in the new Like button menu |
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| Facebook is calling the emoticons Reactions |
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| Pressing and holding on the Like button gives users the choice of a range of animated emotions |
Reactions appear as animated emoticons and pop-up whenever the Like button is long-pressed on Facebook mobile apps.
Desktop users can hover their mouses over the Like button to bring up the new emojis.
The new expressions will allow users to express a range of emotions including love, happiness, anger and sadness.
Facebook hopes the inclusion of negative emotions will finally "address" the demand for a Dislike button on the Californian social network.
Chief product officer Chris Cox wrote on Facebook: "As you can see, it’s not a “dislike” button, though we hope it addresses the spirit of this request more broadly.
"We studied which comments and reactions are most commonly and universally expressed across Facebook, then worked to design an experience around them that was elegant and fun.
"We’ll use the feedback from this to improve the feature and hope to roll it out to everyone soon."
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