Washington - Feeling outraged, tickled or
touched by something you spotted on
Facebook? Now you can say so, after the
social media giant added five new reactions to
its basic "like" button. "Like, love, haha, wow, sad or angry" - the
expanded "reactions" feature rolled out globally
on Wednesday is designed to let users show a
range of emotions. Notably absent from the new emoticons is a
"dislike' button, something sought for years by
Facebook users, but which has been ruled out
by the California company to avoid a barrage
of hateful expressions. "I've spent a lot of time thinking about the right
way to do this with our team. One of my goals
was to make it as simple as pressing and
holding the Like button," Facebook founder
Mark Zuckerberg said on his page,
immediately drawing tens of thousands of "like," "love" and other expressions. "Not every moment you want to share is
happy. Sometimes you want to share
something sad or frustrating. Our community
has been asking for a dislike button for years
but not because people want to tell friends they
don't like their posts. People wanted to express empathy and make it comfortable to share a
wider range of emotions." - Reacting to 'reactions' - Facebook had been testing ways to add to the
"like" button faced with complaints that it was
sometimes inappropriate, especially in cases
of tragic events. "We've 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," product manager
Sammi Krug said in a blog post. "That's why today we are launching Reactions,
an extension of the Like button, to give you
more ways to share your reaction to a post in
a quick and easy way." The familiar "like" button with a thumbs-up
image will still be there, alongside the new
emoticon icons. "We understand that this is a big change, and
want to be thoughtful about rolling this out,"
Krug said. "For more than a year we have been
conducting global research including focus
groups and surveys to determine what types
of reactions people would want to use most." The expanded reactions feature had been
tested in several markets and is now rolling out
globally, Krug added. The new reactions buttons were unveiled in
October as a test project for Facebook users
in Spain and Ireland. The new buttons became a quick topic of
conversation on Facebook and other social
networks, with the hashtag #dislikebutton used
by its proponents. On Twitter, one user wrote, "Thanks @
facebook for all the new reactions except for
literally the only thing I wanted #dislikebutton." In contrast, user Diane Bjorling welcomed the
new tools. "As much as I used to want to see a thumbs
down button... after seeing how such a button
can create conflict.. I am happy with these
'reactions,'" she wrote. Facebook member Greg Kreiger said the
"angry" button was good enough for him. "To the haters and naysayers who are asking
where is a Dislike button: Hover over like and
choose ANGRY," he wrote. "Visually it works better than just having the
words Dislike or whatever there. Get over it. - AFP

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