Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB)
is always doing some change or the other to ensure a better user experience. The
recent news is that the social networking site now allows emoticons to show up
as their proper symbols on comments.
These emoticons would
not work on status updates or any other posts. There are plenty of symbols that
the user can use to insert various emoticons as well as images of animals. For
example, to insert a thumbs-up symbol, user needs to type (y), for a smiling
emoticon, one needs to type :) and for a sad emoticon, one needs to type :(.
The list goes on.
These emoticons were
already available in Facebook messages and chats. The feature has now been
added to comments. It goes without saying that we will be seeing more of these
emoticons now.
Hence, it would not be
just a matter of text now. Emoticons will have as much importance. Some users
may feel that emoticons are distracting and may be inappropriate to use them on
fan pages or while interacting with co-workers and professionals.
As of now, Facebook has
not enabled emoticons in its native iOS application, mobile website and Android
app.
In other news, Facebook
is reportedly facing the acid test of updating its results for the September
quarter. The focus is going to be on the figures, revenues and earnings, to be
precise. Alarm bells, however, have started to ring.
Many analysts have
lowered their estimates of the social networking site’s income for 2013. No one
seems to have raised their predictions.
Although Mark
Zuckerberg has been making positive statements in September that the month has
been working seriously towards translating its member base into advertisement
revenues, there has not been much confidence about the company’s earnings in
the upcoming term. Facebook is supposed to announce its results on 23rd
October.
Shares of FB are up
0.42% at $19.59.
1st page results for fb search. COngrats
ReplyDeleteCongrats indeed! ... I was wondering when Facebook rolled these out. I saw a comment thread full of them and it was horrible.
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