You can tell a lot about a person from how they react to something. That’s why Facebook’s various “Like” buttons are so powerful. Clicking a reaction icon isn’t just a way to register an ...

The new emoji can be accessed by long pressing the “Like” button. Like: This one is pretty simple. It’s the thumbs up icon Facebook is known for.

Back in 2016, Facebook added the extra "reaction" emojis (smiling, laughing, hugging, loving). Geoff Teehan, a product design director at Facebook at the time, wrote a Medium post in 2016: "About ...

Update: 9/18. In Fact, Facebook Patented An Emoji Reaction Button. Apparently I was on the right track. The morning after publishing this article, The Next Web’s Natt Garun dug up an old ...