{"id":18250,"date":"2015-10-08T13:49:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T20:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/facebooks-like-button-will-soon-have-these-emoticon-alternatives-says-report"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:32:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:32:58","slug":"facebooks-like-button-will-soon-have-these-emoticon-alternatives-says-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/facebooks-like-button-will-soon-have-these-emoticon-alternatives-says-report","title":{"rendered":"Facebook\u2019s Like button will soon have these emoticon alternatives, says report"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Facebook is preparing to test a new \u201creactions\u201d feature that would allow users to reply to posts with more than a \u201cLike,\u201d according to a report from Engadget ES<\/i><\/a>. The site on Thursday published mockups of the feature, which adds a range of emoticons to Facebook\u2019s standard thumbs-up Like button. Citing unnamed sources, Engadget<\/i><\/i> reports that the feature will be rolled out to users in Spain and Ireland as early as Friday.<\/p>\n

The report follows a recent announcement from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who said<\/a> at a public Q&A session last month that the site had begun working on new ways for users to \u201cexpress empathy\u201d beyond the \u201cLike\u201d button. The set of reactions published by Engadget<\/i> <\/i>does not include the thumbs-down \u201cDislike\u201d button that many had expected at the time of Zuckerberg\u2019s announcement, though it does feature angry and sad smiley faces. Other icons include a heart, a smiling face, a shocked face, and something that looks like a laughing face.<\/p>\n

Facebook has recently introduced new tools to make it easier for users to personalize their profiles and posts. This month, it launched<\/a> a Snapchat-like \u201cDoodle\u201d feature that allows users to draw on photos, and the site has started to test looped video<\/a> profile pictures.<\/p>\n

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Facebook is preparing to test a new \u201creactions\u201d feature that would allow users to reply to posts with more than a \u201cLike,\u201d according to a report from Engadget ES. The site on Thursday published mockups of the feature, which adds a range of emoticons to Facebook\u2019s standard thumbs-up Like button. Citing unnamed sources, Engadget reports [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63969,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18250\/revisions\/63969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}