{"id":3463,"date":"2016-05-06T10:19:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T02:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/06\/facebook-gets-in-mothers-day-spirit-with-flowers-in-messenger\/"},"modified":"2016-05-06T10:19:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T02:19:13","slug":"facebook-gets-in-mothers-day-spirit-with-flowers-in-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/06\/facebook-gets-in-mothers-day-spirit-with-flowers-in-messenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook gets in Mother&#039;s Day spirit with flowers in Messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Reactions-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.3.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA1LzA1LzEwL3JlYWN0aW9uc3RoLjE0ZTMyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/ad20fae8\/b5b\/reactions-thumb.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Facebook+gets+in+Mother%27s+Day+spirit+with+flowers+in+Messenger&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F05%2Ffacebook-mothers-day-slowers%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F05%2Ffacebook-mothers-day-slowers%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Facebook is already getting ready for Mother&#8217;s Day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The social network is rolling out a couple special features for Mother&#8217;s Day, including an experimental flower reaction and a feature that lets you send flowers via Messenger.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/02\/25\/how-to-use-facebook-reactions\/\">The 6 most important things you need to know about Facebook&#8217;s Reactions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In Messenger, a flower button will appear near the text box for a limited time. Tapping the icon will animate your message, photo or GIF with flowers.\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">There&#8217;s also a new Mother&#8217;s Day-themed sticker pack for Messenger in honor of the holiday, that you can find <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/stickers\/1060824507294765\/\" style=\"line-height: 1.5\">here<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.2.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA1LzA1LzYzL21lc3Nlbmdlcl9tLmQ5NmQ2LmdpZgpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXg0MDk2Pg\/1aca229e\/0b5\/messenger_mothers_day.gif\"><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Messenger aside, Facebook is also testing a special reaction called &#8220;thankful&#8221; for Mother&#8217;s Day that will symbolized as a flower.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">The reaction, which Facebook tells us will be tested in a few countries outside of the US, was first spotted by Twitter user Sreedev Sharma.<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/05\/facebook-mothers-day-slowers\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/facebook-messenger\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Facebook Messenger<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/facebook\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/apps-software\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Apps Software<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Tech<\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/jump\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1462498711' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/ad\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1462498711'><br \/>\n<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/UzGpTlFI6Lk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is already getting ready for Mother&#8217;s Day.\u00a0 The social network is rolling out a couple special features for Mother&#8217;s Day, including an experimental flower reaction and a feature that lets you send flowers via Messenger.\u00a0 SEE ALSO: The 6 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/06\/facebook-gets-in-mothers-day-spirit-with-flowers-in-messenger\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[831,851,1792,725],"class_list":["post-3463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-apps-software","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-messenger","tag-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}