Messenger Show March 23, 2017November 7, 2019 By Drew Moxon, Product Manager, Messenger Messenger is a great way to communicate with just one person or with a group of people. Today, we’re introducing two new features that improve group conversations to make them more fun and useful. Message Reactions To add a reaction, press and hold any message, and then tap to make your selection from the love, smile, wow, sad, angry, yes and no emojis. You’ll be able to see how people have reacted to a message in the lower corner of the message. There, you’ll see the reactions people selected alongside a number indicating how many people reacted to the message. Tapping on the emojis will show you which members of your conversation reacted which way. When someone reacts to a message you sent, you’ll see a small animation when you’re looking at the conversation. And, if you don’t have Messenger open, you’ll receive a notification that lets you know who reacted to your message and how. Messenger Reactions use Messenger emojis. Messenger Reactions work in one on one conversations as well as group conversations and can be used to comment on any message — text, stickers, videos, GIFs and even other emoji. Mentions When the message is sent, it will appear with highlighted text for the others in the group to see. When a person is mentioned, instead of simply seeing that someone responded in the conversation, he or she will receive a new kind of notification that lets them know they were called out specifically. That way, it’s easy to jump right back in to the conversation to answer someone’s question or to provide a response. Everyone in the conversation can see the call out in the conversation, and everyone gets a notification just like before, but only the specified person in the group conversation gets a notification that they have been mentioned. You can choose to turn off these notifications at any time. Reactions and Mentions will also be available for Work Chat in Workplace, our global communications platform for organizations to collaborate better. Both features will begin rolling out today and will be available globally in the coming days. To learn more about Reactions and Mentions, be sure to visit the Help Center, here and here. Why can I not react to a message on messenger?If it still doesn't work, reasons why include: The person you're trying to message deactivated or deleted their account. You've blocked the person you're trying to message or they've blocked you. You're trying to respond to a group conversation that the other members of the conversation have already left.
How do you activate emoji reactions on messenger?React to a message with an emoji on Messenger. From Chats, tap a conversation to open it.. Tap and hold the message you want to react to.. Tap on an emoji.. How do I activate new reaction on Facebook?Go to the post or comment you want to react to. Tap and hold Like, and then choose a reaction. The most popular reactions appear below the post or comment as icons (example: ). Learn how to change or remove your reaction to a post or comment.
Can you turn off reactions in messenger?On an Android device: Open the Facebook Messenger app > open a group conversation > tap the “i” icon at the top of the conversation > tap Notifications > tap next to Message Notifications > disable Message Reactions, Mentions or both.
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