On Feb. 24, Facebook added an entirely new way to interact with your friends through Reactions.
Where previously users only had the ability to like a post, now people browsing Facebook will have several options by holding the like button on mobile and hovering over it on a web browser.
The new forms of interaction include a ‘love’ button, ‘haha’ button, ‘wow’ button, ‘angry’ button, and ‘sad’ button. Additionally, Facebook has updated their list of people who have liked a post to include all of these varying types of reactions.
Although Facebook is over a decade old, it has remained relevant with only the ‘like’ button so far. However, Reactions are bound to completely change the entire way users act on the website. Additionally, the specific emotions that were chosen were highly deliberated.
The new forms of expression were designed let people have “more tools to express themselves more accurately and authentically,” Sammi Krug, product manager, told CNN.
Avid users of Facebook are undoubtedly enjoying this change, and posts are quickly seeing an influx of these new types of reacting to a post. If Facebook plans on releasing new emoticons to further assist users in expression is yet to be seen.