For many years when it came to interacting with other users through other networks, the thumb up gesture from facebook It was what we could say a revolution with all the laws and it was not for less, since the largest social network on the planet and with so many or more users that almost every country in the world made it its symbol par excellence.
Facebook Reactions and heart icon
But now it has come Facebook Reactions that for about a year has had a big list of icons to give the possibility of more interaction. And according to the most recent statistics, the symbol "i love it”Which is given by a heart is used 50% more than the rest of the symbols.
These statistics are very reliable, since the use of these symbols in Facebook publications is counted at up to 300.000 million and with about 1.8 million people who have adopted this system in many countries of the world. Christmas 2016 marked a world record with the use of the heart symbol, being Mexico and Chile the leading countries and in Europe, Greece in the first place where this symbol was used.
The triumph of the heart symbol over the "I don't like it"
For nine years the debate of some users to use a "I don't like" button. It was nine years in which Mark Zuckerberg He was aware that the "I like" was not enough, so after much thought, a heart-shaped symbol won the battle over the "I don't like" symbol.
On February 24 they were born Facebook Reactions that went beyond the "like" button because Facebook did not want to be a forum to go against or in favor and as a curious fact, Ireland and Spain were the pilot countries to test this new communication system.
What does the heart of Facebook mean?
Even psychologists are making guesses as to what lies behind these emoticons and how people really feel about sending them.
Undoubtedly, these faces of various expressions reveal something important about what is the behavior of modern society. The truth is that this is beginning to be part of what non-verbal behaviors are and that they are as or more used than verbal behaviors.
And messages by phone or a social network are taking more and more ground to face-to-face communication, since the new trend in all human beings is precisely the relationship online, virtual, distance ... whatever you want to call it.
“The heart is the most expressive symbol on Facebook, as it allows you to convey a wide range of emotions, apart from being a symbol that easily connects with people and in tests, it was found that people loved using it. The heart is a universal symbol that resonates across languages, cultures, and time zones. "
Japan was the promoter of everything
Although we talk about Facebook and their reactions that are causing such a sensation, they are not the inventors of this resource. It was the Japanese in the nineties who popularized it for the whole world and today 90% of the population uses them frequently.
El use of this type of symbols It has made communication shorter and this is something that the youngest who want a more direct relationship when interacting with the other person appreciate. In another study it has been determined that it is the population between 18 and 34 years those who most use these to express themselves and a last study in progress seeks to establish the connection between the personality of an individual with the symbols they use.
Who was not going to say it, but it has been more than a year since these symbols appeared on Facebook, with the heart symbol sweeping the others.