{"id":141364,"date":"2015-10-08T18:12:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T16:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=141364"},"modified":"2015-10-08T18:13:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T16:13:41","slug":"facebooks-like-button-is-getting-a-massive-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/141364-facebooks-like-button-is-getting-a-massive-upgrade.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook\u2019s Like button is getting a massive upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is launching a pilot of a revamped Like button which it calls <em>Reactions<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you can see, it\u2019s not a dislike button, though we hope it addresses the spirit of this request more broadly,\u201d said\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/chris.cox\/videos\/vb.213466\/10101920404101583\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook said it studied which comments and reactions are most commonly expressed across Facebook, and then worked to design the feature around them.<\/p>\n<p>The new <em>Reactions<\/em> include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Like<\/li>\n<li>Love<\/li>\n<li>Haha<\/li>\n<li>Yay<\/li>\n<li>Wow<\/li>\n<li>Sad<\/li>\n<li>Angry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ireland and Spain can start loving, wow-ing, or expressing sympathy to posts on Facebook by hovering or long-pressing the Like button wherever they see it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll use the feedback from this to improve the feature and hope to roll it out to everyone soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v2.3\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-allowfullscreen=\"1\" data-href=\"\/chris.cox\/videos\/vb.213466\/10101920404101583\/?type=3\"><\/div>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More Facebook news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/141078-facebook-should-allow-you-to-use-pseudonyms-coalition.html\"><strong>Facebook should allow you to use pseudonyms: coalition<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/140820-facebook-in-african-satellite-internet-deal.html\"><strong>Facebook in African satellite Internet deal<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/140762-how-to-stop-facebook-videos-autoplaying-and-using-all-your-mobile-data.html\"><strong>How to stop Facebook videos autoplaying and using all your mobile data<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/140540-how-to-get-a-looping-video-facebook-profile-picture.html\"><strong>How to get a looping video Facebook profile picture<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following reports that Facebook would launch a Dislike button, the social network has launched Reactions instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":141366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,161,33330],"class_list":["post-141364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-reactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141370,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141364\/revisions\/141370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}