After introducing a huge array of reactions for expressing amazement, love and anger; Facebook is all set to introduce the much-awaited and anticipated feature – the ‘Dislike’ button and our excitement knows no boundaries. But, here’s the twist, the feature of ‘Reactions’ and the Dislike button are being tested for chats and not for the news feed. When it comes to chatting on Messenger, things often get rigid where you are forced to use the same set of emojis again and again, but with the introduction of reactions, we are sure things will spice up.

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According to a report in Tech Crunch, one of its readers had told them about the Reactions option popping on some users’ Facebook Messenger app. So, when you check the messages that your friends have sent you in a chat, you can tap the emoji button and choose the one you want to share with them such as thumbs-up Like, thumbs-down Dislike, or heart-eyes, lol, wow, and the angry face. In fact, everyone in the thread can see that reaction and you can also tap and see the list of people who shared similar or different reactions.

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However, it isn’t going to be same as that on the News Feed, the reaction list will be different, primarily because of the Dislike button that will be rolled out on it.  So while it seems that the News Feed will still have to wait for ‘disliking’ any post, people on Messenger can go ahead and use it to their heart’s content. Further, it is being said that the Messenger Reactions are similar to Tapback, iMessage’s recently included emoji and a format that Slack has already shown prowess in.

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The ‘Reactions’ feature was introduced by Facebook nearly a year ago and it is needless to say that it has captured the hearts of people like no one else could ever do with ‘Love’ being the most used emoji. While Facebook’s experiments and tests seem to be their bid to compete with Snapchat, Line and other leading apps, it’s the users who are getting benefitted at the end of the day and we don’t find any reasons to not love it.

Source: Tech Crunch