Facebook Messenger gets reactions and mentions in conversations
Facebook's Messenger is continuing its quest
to add as many features as possible. The latest additions are reactions (which
was in testing for a while) and mentions. Both of these will be rolling out
across the world "in the coming days".
You'll be able to react to any single message
in a thread, and choose between seven different reactions to do so. To add a
reaction you press and hold any message and then tap to select one of the
following emojis that show up: love, smile, wow, sad, angry, yes, and no. Note
that those last two ones can also easily be interpreted as "like" and
"dislike", respectively, given the fact that they're styled like a
thumbs up and thumbs down.
While you're in a conversation, you'll see
reactions to messages in the lower corner, where you get a summary of how many
people reacted. Tapping on that will tell you exactly who reacted how. And when
someone reacts to one of your messages, you'll get a small animation. If you
don't have Messenger open, you'll get a notification telling you that someone
has reacted to a message of yours. Reactions will be available for all messages
- text, stickers, videos, images, GIFs, and even other emojis. And all of this
works in all conversations, be they one on one or of the group type.
Mentions on the other hand are handy for
group chats when you want to get someone's attention. Just type the
"@" symbol followed by the first few letters of that person's name or
nickname. You'll get a list of people that you can pick from. Then write what
you want and that participant in your chat will be notified that you've
mentioned him or her. This will be achieved through a new type of notification,
which lets them know that you called them out specifically.
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