New Options for Expressing Emotions on Facebook

Now you have more options than just 'like' to express your feelings on Facebook. According to CNN, Facebook, which has long been under pressure to add more options for showing different emotions, has provided users with five options: 'love', 'haha', 'wow', 'sad', and 'angry' alongside 'like'. Facebook, which has now become one of the most used sites in the world, had long resisted the idea of having a 'dislike' button against 'like'. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of the site, recently stated that they are looking for ways to show 'empathy' on Facebook and will soon present a plan for testing to users. The reason Facebook did not have a dislike button was that they did not want negativity or hatred to be spread through Facebook. In fact, they did not want users to use Facebook's tools to express anger, rage, or to harm others or vote negatively against each other. However, by adding these five new options, users can show different emotions to posts, photos, or videos that their friends share on Facebook. In the mobile version of Facebook, you need to hold your finger on the 'like' button for a moment for the other options to appear. In the computer version, these options are visible alongside the like button. According to CNN, researchers, engineers, and product managers at Facebook have been researching and preparing these options for over a year. They have held multiple sessions with sociologists and focus groups of users to finally find these five options suitable for global presentation. It seems that the emojis related to these five options are among the most popular options used by users. Sami Krag, one of Facebook's product managers, says that finding options that are recognizable to users worldwide and that everyone can use was the biggest challenge in selecting these options. Before the global launch of this service on Wednesday, Facebook had tested these options in several countries, including Spain, Ireland, Chile, and the Philippines. Krag says that the feedback from this test has been positive and the 'love' option has gained the most popularity among users. In this context, the number of Facebook users surpassed one billion in a single day.