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Sur Facebook, de nouveaux boutons pour dire la colère, la tristesse et l'amour

(On Facebook, new buttons to express anger, sadness, and love)

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Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 28.1.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook
Summary | Facebook is going to introduce new reaction buttons to express love, sadness, surprise, and anger. Mark Zuckerberg thought that a dislike button would have been too negative, so he decided to introduce those new reaction buttons.
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Facebook: au «J'aime» s'ajoutent «J'adore», «Triste» ou «Grrr»

(Facebook: Besides "Like", "I love it", "Sad" or "Grrr" were added)

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Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 24.2.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook
Summary | Facebook introduced five new reaction buttons. They say they want to give people more possibilities to quickly share a reaction.
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« Lol » est mort, vive le « haha » !

("Lol" is dead, long lives "haha"!)

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Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 12.8.2015
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook, gender, research/study
Summary | According to Facebook analysts, "lol" is dying out. In their study, they found out that only 1,9% of internet users use "lol" and 51,4% of them use "haha". Laughing emojis are used by 33,7% of internet users. "Lol" seems to be used by 30-year old men whereas emojis are mostly used by females under 20.
Image Description | Photograph of a dictionary page with a big LOL in the middle of the page.
Image Tags | dictionary

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