Thursday, February 25, 2016

How to use Facebook’s Love, Haha, Wow, Sad or Angry reactions on your PC or Smartphone

After initially testing the reaction buttons last year, Facebook started rolling out its new reactions buttons for everyone yesterday. These new buttons essentially let users react to posts in more ways than just like them. With the new buttons, users can express different emotions like Like, Love, Haha, Wow, Sad or Angry. Heres how you can use Facebooks new reaction buttons.

Facebooks reaction buttons are being rolled out for web, as well as its mobile apps. On the web, you dont need to make any changes to settings. The next time you login, go to a post you want to react to and simply hover your mouse on the Like button. Do not click the button, as you will only end up liking the post. A second or two after you hover the mouse on the button, you will see Facebooks new reaction buttons pop up.

On the mobile app, things are slightly different. You will have to tap and hold the Like button, and in a couple of seconds the reaction buttons will pop up. Once you have appropriately reacted to a post (on web or mobile), you will see small reaction icons below the buttons that will show you how many people have reacted to the post and how.


While Facebooks reaction buttons have been launched globally, it seems to be a gradual roll out. If you cant see the reaction buttons yet, dont be dismayed, they will soon appear. On the mobile, you might have to shut the Facebook app completely (even from the background), and reopen a couple of times to be able to see the reaction buttons.


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