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February 28, 2017 12:10 am GMT
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You might want to rethink what you're 'liking' on Facebook now
Facebook's reactions just turned one and the company is finally revealing how its revamped like button impacts your News Feed.
It turns out the company weighs reactions — love, haha, wow, sad and angry — over "likes" in determining what content to surface in your News Feed.
SEE ALSO: Instagram launches photo albums, sadly
"Over the past year we've found that if people leave a Reaction on a post, it is an even stronger signal that they'd want to see that type of post than if they left a Like on the post," a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement. "So we are updating News Feed to weigh reactions a little more than Likes when taking into account how relevant the story is to each person." Read more...
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