Last week, A friend of mine posted on Facebook about the demise of his Grandmother. I felt sorry for him, I wanted him to know that. I almost clicked the like button, It suddenly pinched me.. Should I LIKE the sad news that he posted? I was on a sticky wicket. After some thought I posted a comment. But there could have been a better solution.
Just the other day, another one of my friends posted something very sarcastic and I was laughing my ass off! But how'd I let him know? But 'just' a LIKE wasn't enough to showcase how I felt.. I commented 'lmao' on his post.
Don't we deserve a better way of expressing our-self with just a click of a button? Yes we do.
All this will be history, On the morning of Wednesday Facebook rolled out a bunch of 'emotions' to compliment the veteran LIKE button.
Globally launched emoticons that depict 'Love' 
, 'Haha', 'Wow'
, 'Sad' 
and 'Angry' 
, were embedded into the already existing 'Like' button.
On mobile, press-holding the like button would show up the emoticon tray.
Where as on desktop, Hovering over the Like button with the cursor would carry out the same operation.
This may sound like a small improvement or an update that was much awaited, But it is of great importance to the internet on the whole.
The generation of web is growing bigger, so are it's users who grow wider and that would mean more interaction. But surprisingly the clarity of information and expression has been diminishing alarmingly. Either they are misunderstood, or never understood.
In this case, tools which provide the user to express and understand at a glance, are the need of the hour. Kudos to Facebook for that.
P.S: A lot will depend on how it is going to be used!
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