Introducing Reactions, Facebook's solution to the 'dislike button' problem

Facebook has revamped its "like" feature with six new iconsand like it or not, the long-rumoured"dislike" button isn't one of them.

The social network islaunching a pilot test of a feature called "Reactions,"a set of symbols designed to let usersexpress a range of emotionsbeyond its standard "like" feature.

Chris Cox, chief product officer at Facebook, confirmed the newsin aposton Thursday.

The new symbols are called"love, haha, yay, wow, sad, and angry," and canbe selected by pressing the "like" button on Android, iPhone and desktop devices though not yet on Messenger or other Facebook products, TechCrunch reports.

These emojiscome inresponse to calls for a"dislike" button, which company founder Mark Zuckerberg hinted might be in the worksback in September.

For now, Facebook istesting Reactions in Ireland and Spain, where users often have large international friend networks according to Adam Mosseri, Facebook's director of product. InSpain, Facebook plans totest how the wordless characters work with non-English speakers as well.

The company intendsto introduce Reactionsto all of its users soon, but inthe meantime you can check out a video of the feature here.