Facebook comments might soon get colored backgrounds, because we all deserve to suffer

Oh, no. First it was the colored statuses — those awful, ugly, often-gradient-based abominations that pop up in your Facebook feed now and then — but we thought at least our Facebook comments are safe. 

Well, not any more. It appears that Facebook is testing comments with colored backgrounds. 

First spotted by The Next Web on Wednesday, the feature allows users to choose from a solid or gradient color for the comment's background, just like the statuses.

The feature currently appears to only be available on mobile, and only to a small subset of users. We've checked a dozen or so phones here at Mashable, and no one had the feature available.  Read more...