Facebook 'reactions': social network adds emoji to 'Like' options

After much speculation over a 'dislike' button, social network trials emotional reactions for users, such as 'love' and 'laughter'

Facebook is to trial "reactions" options for users responding to content, proving that merely being able to "like" something was somewhat limiting the human emotional spectrum.

From Friday, Ireland and Spain (assumingly particularly emotive nations?) will be the first to test the new feature. Despite wide reporting that Facebook was working on a "dislike" button in September, it seems company boss Mark Zuckerberg has decided that a binary choice of like and dislike is too specific.