Facebook's 'like' Button Gets 'Angry' and 'Sad' as Friends

Here's something you might love: You don't have to just "like" Facebook posts anymore. Yet, we've also been moaning about it.

Tapping on "Like" will quickly like the post, but press and hold in order for the reactions to show up.

"Not every moment you want to share is happy".

Facebook has given a basic description of each of them (Love, Haha, Wow, Sad, Angry), but it's up to Facebook users to now define what they mean and how the new icons should be used. Note: Another emoji that Facebook had been testing, Yay, didn't make the cut. To use a Facebook reaction on your laptop or tablet, hover your cursor over the like button, and all six Facebook Reactions will be visible.

It's great to see Facebook expanding on the idea of the Like button.

Mark Zuckerberg himself got on Facebook early on Wednesday afternoon and notified the world of the release of "Reactions". "For more than a year we have been conducting global research including focus groups and surveys to determine what types of reactions people would want to use most", stated Krug.

Note: Are you one of Kim Komando's 204,000 Facebook friends?

Facebook Reactions are finally here, and you can now tell your Facebook friends "Wow" on their new engagement or show you're "Angry" at the latest development in the 2016 election.

For those that manage Facebook Pages, the addition of reactions won't immediately affect how often posts appear in the newsfeed, but Krug alluded to this being a potential in the future.

The new buttons will work essentially the same way as the like button. "In the beginning, it won't matter if someone likes, "wows" or "sads" a post - we will initially use any Reaction similar to a Like to infer that you want to see more of that type of content. Over time we hope to learn how the different Reactions should be weighted differently by News Feed to do a better job of showing everyone the stories they most want to see". Facebook's Like button is getting some company, as the company rolls out alternatives worldwide after testing in a few countries. Still, this is about as close as users have gotten to one ever, and it at least gives options other than just hitting "Like" and making a sad or anger-inducing story seem appreciated, which is awkward. The slow test and rollout of the expanded button - which Zuckerberg has said is the company´s biggest design change to date - is a marked change from Zuckerberg´s famous mantra, "move fast and break things". Fortunately, last time we checked, Facebook still accommodates text, meaning we can use the old shopworn but nevertheless likeable collection of alphabet extensions called words to express ourselves.