Mediaboss Marketing

Facebook is bringing reactions and mentions, two key features of its flagship social media platform, to the Messenger app.

Designed for use in group chats, reactions will work much the same way they currently do in your Facebook News Feed. Tapping and holding any message in a chat will bring up a selection of emoji similar to those that appear when you hover your mouse over the "like" button on a post on Facebook.

Messenger reactions will also include the thumbs up and thumbs down emoji, which might come in handy to accept or reject the restaurant that someone in the chat suggests for dinner, for example. Reactions also work in one-on-one conversations, and they'll show up on any message, including text, stickers, videos, and GIFs. They can even be used on other emoji (in other words, if your group texts are anything like ours, you'll need to get ready for even more emoji overload).

The other classic Facebook feature arriving on Messenger is the ability to directly notify someone when they've been mentioned in a conversation. As you would when you're composing a Facebook post or status update, mention someone in a Messages conversation by typing the "@" symbol or the first few letters of his or her name.

Everyone in the group chat will get a notification when you send the message, but the person you mention will get a different notification that tells them they were called out.

Facebook says the new mention and reaction features will be rolling out to Messenger users worldwide in the next few days, as well as users of the Chat app for Facebook Workplace.

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Reactions, Mentions Arrive on Facebook Messenger - PCMag India