announced Mark ZuckerbergIn a Facebook post, Facebook founder and owner of WhatsApp: reactions they will eventually available for instant messaging users. The company later posted it on its blog. About what? Being able to reply to a message in a chat without creating a new one, but adding an emoji to the original message is something that’s already available on both Facebook and Instagram (and other messaging platforms).

As reported by Zuckerberg, you will be able to react to a message in a chat. six predefined emoji groups:

• Thumbs up.
• Heart.
• Little face crying with laughter.
• Surprised face.
• sad face.
• Hands together as a prayer or a sign of thanks.

According to Zuckerberg, the addition of this latest emoji is to help spread the word of thanks and confirms that there will be more emojis in reactions soon.

• Twitter will let you add videos and images to the same post

This reactions on whatsapp In the middle of last month, the company announced the arrival of communities (such as collections of WhatsApp groups) and group video calls with up to 32 interlocutors, sending of files up to 2 GB and groups with up to 512 members.

We started Group Chats in 2011 and have not stopped developing since then. In the coming weeks, we’ll be rolling out the ability to share up to 2GB of files and add more people to your groups so you can continue to create and feed meaningful, private links. https://t.co/mcJpQVIVTU

– WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) May 5, 2022

Using them is very easy: WhatsApp lets you react to a text message, a photo, a video, a sound or a sticker. reach with long press the message (as if we want to select it) and a small menu will appear with existing reactions; When you select one, it will appear in the lower right corner of the message. If others react to the same message, the emojis will pile up there, just like on Facebook and other social networks.

What Zuckerberg doesn’t specify is the speed with which this new feature is activated, but WhatsApp usually gradually enables such new features on a per user group and country basis, so it will likely be unavailable for 2 billion users. users owned by the platform at the same time.

As always, the important thing in this case is to have the latest version of the messenger available and update it from the Android, iOS or Windows app store.