People really 'love' Facebook's Messenger reactions

Facebook Messenger reactions are here to stay.

Over the last couple years, Facebook's iconic like button has been expanded with "reactions," a larger choice of responses on Facebook. A little over a year since the launch of Facebook reactions, they're now on posts, messages, and even comments. 

The reactions came to Messenger just a few months ago, and have already been sent over 2 billion times, the company announced on Wednesday. To put that into perspective, at last count, Facebook Messenger announced a staggering 1.2 billion users. Messenger also features the site's closest thing to a dislike button in the form of the 'no' reaction. Read more...