Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Facebook has introduced five alternatives button “Like” – BBC News

Facebook Company after extended testing in several countries opened a new feature Reactions. Starting today, users worldwide can better express their attitude to this or that publication by placing one of the five new emoticons.

In addition to the usual icon Like, depicting a raised finger, users can put the heart (Love ), express emotion laughing (Haha) surprised (Wow), sad (Sad) or evil (angry) smiley. New Emoji are displayed under the entry at the bottom, next to the counter of the number of comments, and clicks Like. In order to select one of the icons, you need to hold down the button “Like”.

Instead, the counter “likes” the social network shows the total number of “reactions”. To simplify the tape animated emoticons that can otvleat account, Facebook only shows some of the most popular icons of the publication.

Initially, the composition was included Reactions another, sixth Emoji, which allowed to respond to the post with rejoicing (Yay – “great!” Or “cool!”). However, from this smiley Facebook has decided to give up, because in six countries, which were also tested, “not all understand its value,” the company said.

Reactions allow Facebook to better define the user related to the tou or other office and improve the formation of algorithms “Chronicles.” “Over time, we hope to learn how ‘weight’ have different reactions to the news ticker fared better in showing users the stories that they most want to see,” – the representatives of the social network.

Source: TechCrunch

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