{"id":5196,"date":"2017-12-10T12:58:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T12:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=5196"},"modified":"2017-12-10T12:58:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T12:58:20","slug":"facebook-testing-new-greetings-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/12\/10\/facebook-testing-new-greetings-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook testing new \u2018greetings\u2019 features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook users will soon be able to send a variety of \u2018greetings to interact with their friends in a unique way. Apart from \u2018Poke\u2019, now you can send a wink, a high-five, a hug and a wave.<!--more-->According to a report in The Nation, the options are under trial in Britain, Thailand, Australia, Canada, Columbia and France, and the feature has been released in line with the tenth anniversary of the poke.<\/p>\n<p>Under the \u2018Hello\u2019 button on your friend\u2019s profile, the new options can be seen by just holding the button. On a desktop, a simple hover over the \u2018Hello\u2019 button will show the alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>These work in a similar way the \u2018Reactions\u2019 on a photo or status work.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook introduced the \u2018Hello\u2019 button in June and placed it at the top of people\u2019s profiles.<\/p>\n<p>The new greetings also have an undo button for an accidental send.<\/p>\n<p>IANS<\/p>\n<p>Picture courtesy: Alamy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook users will soon be able to send a variety of \u2018greetings to interact with their friends in a unique way. Apart from \u2018Poke\u2019, now you can send a wink, a high-five, a hug and a wave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[89,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5198,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5196\/revisions\/5198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}