Facebook users in Ireland will be among the first in the world using icons to express emotional reactions.
The 'Like' feature has been an icon on the popular social network Facebook for the past seven years. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that there were problems with the feature..
Not every moment is a good moment.
From tomorrow, Facebook users in Ireland and Spain will also be able to post reactions of happiness, sadness, surprise and anger to posts in the form of emojis. Facebook has resisted the introduction of a dislike emoji to avoid any negativity on the service. The social network will be monitoring use of the new emojis over the coming weeks before making a decision about rolling out the options to the rest of its 1.4 billion users.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 8 October 2015. The reporter is Adam Maguire.
