Last month, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressed what users have been chasing for years – announcing that team FB were in the process of working on a “dislike” button for facebook posts and statuses.
‘Course, turns out the simplest addition to a social network can’t and won’t be done – as the prospect of a “dislike” button has been dumped today – replaced instead by emoji “reactions”.
Jk. Facebook’s Reactions are cute AF.
Facebook’s Chief Product Officer Chris Cox unveiled the news in the early hours of this morning, announcing that a string of reactionary, moving emojis will soon join the humble, failsafe 
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“As you can see, it’s not a “dislike” button, though we hope it addresses the spirit of this request more broadly,” Cox writes, before a video unveils the new reactions that could solve the problem of wanting to show support for a certain status, but needing to steer away from associating a “like” with it, when a positive emotion doesn’t cut it – or, as Zuck put it: “Not every moment is a good moment, and sometimes you just want a way to express empathy.”
The new lil dues/spectrum of your emotions soon available will be:
“Love”
“Haha”
“Yay”
“Wow”
“Sad”
“Angry”
Testing for Facebook Reactions begins today only in Spain and Ireland, [angry reaction], and there’s no timeframe yet on when the feature will be released worldwide, other than “soon”.
Today we’re launching a pilot test of Reactions — a more expressive Like button. As you can see, it’s not a “dislike”…
Posted by Chris Cox on Thursday, 8 October 2015
via ABC.
