Facebook now allows you to like your Stories

Facebook desperately wants you to use Stories in its own app. When we write a post, and before sending it to our wall, the social network asks us if we also want to add it to our Stories section. And things as they are, the ephemeral stories section is usually a deserted field. But those of Zuckerberg and company do not stop trying to make the Stories attractive in this application, as they are on Instagram or even on WhatsApp ( although not so much in Spain).

New Stories with which to interact more and better

Today Facebook launches, in an internal update, the reactions that we all know, in the section of our Stories. Until now, we had been able to respond to Facebook Stories with the typical emoticons of laughter, love, disgust, some with sunglasses (that you go to know what reaction it will represent), an emoticon with the tongue sticking out, a short cry and another disconsolate one. Even a pair of hands clapping.

From now on you will be able to react to the Stories with the 'likes', 'it makes me angry', etc., typical of your postson Facebook. In addition to these 6 classic reactions, Facebook will also add a couple of interactive stickers (a flame and an effusive smile) so that, if you send it, your friend touches the screen and they start to cheer up, as it already happens when we click on a 'congratulation'.But can we no longer reply to our friends' Stories? Yes, but things change and Messenger Facebook is going to be an essential part of this new update.

Now, when you see that a large number of users have reacted in some way to your Stories, you can create, with that group of people, a community on Messenger with which to talk about whatever you feel like most. This, for those who accumulate hundreds of people on Facebook, can be a great way to make real friends, get to know each other and, thus, use the social network for its main purpose. At least the task of ordinary users, which is none other than being in contact with the people we know and, incidentally, making new friends. The role of social media companies is usually quite different.

Will the same thing happen on Instagram?

Adam Mosseri, former vice president of news at Facebook, claimed that the arrival of reactions to Facebook was a great boost to the popularity of the social network. Although the youngest seem to have somewhat forgotten it, in favor of another social network in the house, Instagram. And no wonder. If one of the incentives of Facebook is the interaction and the 'Likes' are continuous stimuli that make us return again and again to the application, isn't it much better an intense red heart or an emoticon laughing out loud, or even an excited face, to provoke in us a more intense reaction?

Now we have to wait if this new Facebook update will go in the direction of Instagram. Will we have reactions and discussion groups on Instagram Stories? We will continue to inform you about it.

Via | TechCrunch