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Facebook users are all smiles over emoji
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 26.2.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook
Summary | Facebook introduced a new way to express oneself on the social network: people can use emoji-like reaction buttons to represent love, laughter, anger, surprise and sadness. The "like" button was not always appropriate (e.g. to comment on a post about a death). People mostly think that the new reactions are fun. Other people are disappointed that Facebook didn't add a dislike button.
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Facebook's 'reactions': What's to not like?
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 25.2.2016
Language | English
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook
Summary | Facebook has just released its new reaction buttons, and not everyone is happy about them. When is appropriate to use each "reaction"? The article describes each of the six reaction buttons and their supposed use.
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Wie Facebook unsere Sprache ausspähen will
(How Facebook wants to spy on our language)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 11.3.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook, research/study, word/writing
Summary | Facebook is planning to systematically keep track of linguistic innovations on their platform. They want to compile a slang dictionary ("social glossary") with the freshest expressions. Linguists are also very interested in this project. American linguist Gretchen McCulloch has already posed the research question what verbs and nouns will enter our speech for the new Facebook emoji reactions. We already speak of likes and liking something but how will we speek of users reacting with sad or angy emojis?
Image Description | Image of an eye reflecting a Facebook like symbol and a tweet by linguist Gretchen McCulloch.
Image Tags | Facebook, Twitter
Für mehr Gefühle werfen Sie bitte eine Münze ein
(For more emotions please insert coin)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 24.2.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | (mental) health, emojis, Facebook
Summary | Facebook has now expanded their "like" function to five emotions depicted by emojis: love, sadness, anger, laughing, and suprise. What new possibilities does this give us? Now we can know when we should not ask people for a favor and when they have PMS. Our therapists can monitor our emotional development at all times.
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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)
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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Emoji: Rolle vorwärts
(Emoji: rolling forward)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 16.2.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook, threat
Summary | A bunch of new emojis have been included in the latest Apple update: the taco, a lion, and the eye-roll emoji which is the most popular of them all. In our age where online language is dominated by hyperbole, that is quite calm for a change. Simultaneously, Facebook enhances the like function with six emotions depicted by emojis.
Image Description | A bunch of eye-roll emojis with a few different emojis in between.
Image Tags | emojis
Jetzt kommt die Sticker-Schwemme
(The sticker flood is on its way)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 15.11.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | abbreviations, emojis, Facebook, language threat, marketing, social media
Summary | Emoticons (f.i. ":-D") and abbreviations (f.i. "LOL") have trickled down from "geek speak" and established themselves in the mainstream. Emojis are nowadays ever present in our digital communication as well as in other arenas such as film or advertising. Now various social media platforms, among them Facebook, offer users various palettes of stickers. They are larger versions of emojis and are sent as an image file rather than included on the keyboard as a letter. Because many sticker palettes need to be purchased, a whole economy is beginning to form: The Japanese messaging app Line has sold over $250 mio worth of stickers last year. We do not need to fear that emojis and co. will replace language as we know it.
Image Description | Commodified emojis in various forms (as balls, as tattoos, as bed sheets, as food, on clothing, as masks, etc.) and Facebook messenger chats using/purchasing sticker collections.
Image Tags | emojis, Facebook, male(s), social media
Facebook: au «J'aime» s'ajoutent «J'adore», «Triste» ou «Grrr»
(Facebook: Besides "Like", "I love it", "Sad" or "Grrr" were added)
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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Ein Hashtag allein ist kein Zeichen für Mitgefühl
(A Hashtag is not a sign of empathy)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 24.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook
Summary | The recent terrorist attacks at a christmas market in Berlin have prompted a flood of empathetic social media postings. It is questionable how empathetic people really are when they showcase their solidarity on social media, say psychologists. They may just be submitting to peer pressure and conforming to what appears to be the popular, appropriate reaction - namely posting on social media.
Image Description | Getty image of a solidarity gathering with a woman holding a heart sign.
Image Tags | female(s)
Like? Haha. Love! Sad? Wow. Angry
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 26.2.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook
Summary | Facebook has a new reaction feature that is an expansion of the “like” function: users can now not only “like” content on Facebook but also, laugh at it, love it, be sad about it, be amazed by it, or angry at it. These five newly available reactions are depicted with emojis. Users were generally content with the new feature, although some think it is controversial. Many inappropriate happy reactions were for instance recorded when a refugee camp caught fire.
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