Facebook to Test Emoji Icons
Facebook on Thursday started testing six new emotional reactions that you can convey with a simple emoji, giving users an option to express a different emotion. The six new emoji depict various expressions, from an open mouth to express surprise to a scowling red face for anger. The other four emotions are love, laughter, sadness and a supportive cheer.
The new reaction icons will be available to most Facebook users in Spain and Ireland by the end of this week.
Facebook will evaluate how people in those two countries use the new buttons and refine them, before expanding the rollout to the company’s 1.5 billion users worldwide later this year.
Mark E. Zuckerberg, Facebook’s co-founder and chief executive, said last month that the company planned to test a way to "dislike" a post. "I do think it’s important to give people more options than just like," he said at that time.