We’ve been watching Facebook’s experiment with its ‘Like’ button with anticipation and now chief product officer Chris Cox has confirmed Reactions are going global. He’s also explained how the company chose five more internationally-recognized emotions to sit alongside the famous 👍 button. Within weeks, all Facebook users will be able to react to any post with ‘angry’, ‘sad’, ‘wow’, ‘haha’ or ‘love’ emoticons. Although deployed in testing, which spanned six countries, ‘yay’ did not make the final cut as “it was not universally understood,” a spokesperson told Bloomberg. As well as consulting with sociologists, the team analyzed the most common reactions across its network in order the refine…
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