Puzzled by the new messages in your Facebook notifications that say that so-and-so “reacted to your post”? Overnight, Facebook rolled out their new post reactions emoticons – new emojis to demonstrate how you feel about someone’s post. Now, instead of just “Liking” someone’s post, you can Like, Love, Haha, Wow, Sad or Angry it. Yes, nevermind that not all of those are verbs.
The New Facebook Dwarves Emotions: Love, Haha, Wow, Sad, and Angry
We were first alerted to this when we saw this in one of our Facebook notification feeds:
The other tip-off that something was amiss new was these changed icons:
| Get notified of new Internet Patrol articles for free!
|
| Or Read Internet Patrol Articles Right in Your Inbox! as Soon as They are Published! Only $1 a Month! Imagine being able to read full articles right in your email, or on your phone, without ever having to click through to the website unless you want to! Just $1 a month and you can cancel at any time! |
So what brought about the change?
In an interview with Forbes, Facebook’s Sammi Krug explains that “We heard from people that they wanted more ways to express themselves on Facebook. When people come to Facebook, they share all kinds of different things, things that make them sad, things that make them happy, thought-provoking, angry. We kept hearing from people that they didn’t have a way to express empathy.”
Or, apparently, humour, surprise, anger, or, yes, love.
| We know you're sick of ads on websites. But we still need to pay to keep the lights on for you. So instead of huge ads and video ads, we use smaller, plainer ads. Still, if you'd like to support the Internet Patrol but not the ads, please consider supporting us here: |
To access these new reactions, you need to hover over the “Like” button, which looks like it always did..at least for now.
So, do you like these new reaction options? Have you used them yet?
No Paywall Here!
The Internet Patrol is and always has been free. We don't hide our articles behind a paywall, or restrict the number of articles you can read in a month if you don't give us money.
That said, it does cost us money to run the site, so if something you read here was helpful or useful, won't you consider donating something to help keep the Internet Patrol free?
Thank you!
| Get notified of new Internet Patrol articles!
|
Related articles:
About the Weird Codes that Appear When You Dictate Something on Facebook from Your iPhone
How to Keep Up with All of Those Facebook Birthday Messages
How to Turn Off Notifications for Facebook Likes and Other Reactions
How to Convert an Audio File to Video to Post an Audio File to Facebook or YouTube in 1 Easy Step!
How to Find, See and Edit the List of Friends and Pages You Have Selected to ‘See First’ on Facebook
On the mobile apps, long-pressing the Like icon should give you access to all of the reactions.