{"id":201654,"date":"2017-03-06T17:31:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T15:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=201654"},"modified":"2017-03-06T17:32:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T15:32:14","slug":"facebook-testing-dislike-button-on-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/201654-facebook-testing-dislike-button-on-messenger.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook testing dislike button on Messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is testing reactions &#8211; including a dislike button &#8211; in its instant messaging app, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/03\/04\/facebook-messenger-dislike-button\/\" target=\"_blank\">TechCrunch reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The feature is available to select users, who said that when you\u00a0hover over messages, you can tap an emoji button to choose from several reactions.<\/p>\n<p>Reactions includes: heart-eyes, lol, wow, sad, angry emoji, thumbs-up (like), and thumbs-down (dislike).<\/p>\n<p>Everyone in the thread can see a count of the reactions to a message, according to the report.\u00a0You\u00a0may then tap to see a full list of\u00a0which reactions were left by whom.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Facebook-Messenger-Reactions.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-201662 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Facebook-Messenger-Reactions-640x272.png\" alt=\"Facebook Messenger Reactions\" width=\"640\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Facebook-Messenger-Reactions-640x272.png 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Facebook-Messenger-Reactions-600x255.png 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Facebook-Messenger-Reactions.png 642w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/201472-facebook-could-be-regulated-in-south-africa-by-the-anc-government.html\">Facebook could be regulated in South Africa by the ANC Government<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is testing reactions &#8211; including a dislike button &#8211; in its instant messaging app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":184104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[161,8887,33330],"class_list":["post-201654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-messenger","tag-facebook-reactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201654"}],"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=201654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201664,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201654\/revisions\/201664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}