As a lot of us continue to stay, indoors Facebook has become a go-to platform for many people to check in with their friends, family and neighbors during the current coronavirus pandemic.
Now, to give us another way of showing support and presence in its apps, the company said it would add a new reaction for “care” — in the forms of an emoji face hugging a heart, and a pulsing heart — that will appear alongside the “thumbs up” for like, the basic heart, and the laughing, shock, sadness, and anger emojis.
This makes “care” the first addition to the list of reactions since it was expanded from a simple “like” button back in 2015 to give people more empathetic, quick responses to posts.
Starting soon, the care emojis will start appearing on Facebook’s main app (the emoji face embracing the heart), while the new reaction will appear on Messenger (in the form of a pulsing heart) . Youcan see the new heart by pressing on an existing reaction to change it, or by creating a new reaction to a chat