After offering a slew of \u201cReaction\u201d buttons for posts last year, Facebook may soon add a new reaction \u201cDislike\u201d for Facebook Messenger, a media report said.<\/p>\n
According to a report in Tech Crunch, Facebook was testing out a \u201cthumbs down\u201d reaction in addition to the already available reactions.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re always testing ways to make Messenger more fun and engaging. This is a small test where we enable people to share an emoji that best represents their feelings on a message,\u201d the company was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n
The difference would be the availability of a \u201cDislike\u201d button in the Messenger. The same button would not appear in the list of reactions available for posts.<\/p>\n
The new feature in Messenger would allow users to add reaction emojis next to the text in conversations. Users could do this by clicking on a button next to text.<\/p>\n
The reactions are similar to the current six reaction buttons for posts, but also includes a thumbs down button. The feature also includes a reaction counter, which would list the number of reactions on any given line.<\/p>\n
In February, Facebook celebrated the first anniversary of \u201cReactions\u201d and recorded 300 billion \u201cReactions\u201d on posts and the \u201cLove\u201d reaction was used maximum times by its over 1.79 billion users.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been one year since we could do more than \u2018Like\u2019 a friend\u2019s post, and in that time, there have been a total of 300 billion reactions on posts to date,\u201d Facebook said in a statement.<\/p>\n
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