{"id":336603,"date":"2017-03-23T23:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=1468014"},"modified":"2017-03-23T23:00:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T15:00:05","slug":"facebook-messenger-rolls-out-mention-alerts-and-message-reaction-emoji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/facebook-messenger-rolls-out-mention-alerts-and-message-reaction-emoji\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Messenger rolls out mention alerts and message Reaction emoji"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Group chat will get a bit less chaotic with the global rollout<\/a> of two Facebook Messenger features it was previously testing in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

Users can now @mention friends in a group chat to send them a special notification to reply to your message so they don\u2019t miss it in a noisy thread. You just type @, then the person\u2019s name or in-thread nickname, and the name will be highlighted and that person will get an alert.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Facebook is bringing its News Feed Reactions to Messenger so you can reply by attaching a\u00a0love, smile, wow, sad, angry, thumbs-up or thumbs-down emoji to a specific message. This way you\u2019ll be able to simply express agreement, disagreement, or an emotion about a particular message even if a bunch of other messages have come in since.<\/p>\n

Tap and hold on a message to pull up the Reactions menu and select one. Everyone will see a counter of different reactions on the message, and you can tap that counter to see exactly who reacted how. Reactions work in on-on-one chats too.<\/p>\n

The \u2018Thumbs-down\u2019 Reaction could be interpreted as Facebook\u2019s first real \u2018Dislike button\u2019. \u00a0However, Facebook calls it a \u2018No\u2019 Reaction and told me that since people often use Messenger for coordinating logistics, it wanted to add easy ways to vote for or against a proposed plan.<\/p>\n

TechCrunch first spotted and reported on a test of Messenger Reactions<\/a> early this month, and also saw that users in Vietnam were trying out mentions<\/a>. Reactions works very similar to iOS 10\u2019s iMessage\u2019s Tapback<\/a> reactions launched in September, and Slack\u2019s more expansive and long-standing emoji reaction selector.<\/p>\n

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Messenger Reactions work the same as iMessage Tapback Reactions that launched last year<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Doubling down on group chat is smart for Messenger at a time when it\u2019s been criticized for injecting social media content<\/a> broadcasting into the communication app via Snapchat Stories clone Messenger Day<\/a>. Messenger actually started as a group chat app called Beluga before Facebook acquired it. With mentions and Reactions, Facebook could use it\u2019s better group chat experience than SMS to win users from the status quo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\" Group chat will get a bit less chaotic with the global rollout of two Facebook Messenger features it was previously testing in Vietnam. Users can now @mention friends in a group chat to send them a special notification to reply to your message so they don’t miss it in a noisy thread. You just type @, then the person’s name or in-thread nickname, and the name will be highlighted… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n

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