New Facebook emoticons are coming

Within weeks five new Facebook emoticons will appear to express what your emotions. This will be the end of the era ruled by the ‘traditional’ likes, origo.hu reported.

Facebook is preparing for one of the most significant innovations of recent years. The new reaction icons are coming within weeks. You will be able to use anger, sadness, surprise, laughter and love in addition to the traditional like button when answering your chatmate.

On this occasion product director Chris Cox talked Bloomberg about how they chose the emoticons and why it is hard to change the like button.

Facebook has 1.6 billion users who generate more than 6 billion likes every day. This is more than the number of Google searches. Companies and businesses want to share things that generate as many likes as possible. If the people could not like and comment, fewer users would post and the overall user experience would be compromised, origo.hu wrote.

Like button means self-justification as well. Many people like charity sites to feel they did something good, or they just express their identity by liking music, videos they like, too. In addition you can commit yourself in an online dispute by liking a comment you agree with.