Facebook新表情讓你表達負面情緒

SAN FRANCISCO — Despite the billions of “likes” bestowed on Facebook posts every month, something has been missing: an option to express a different emotion.

舊金山——儘管Facebook的帖子每個月都會收到數十億個“贊”，但還是缺了點東西：表達不同情感的選項。

On Thursday, Facebook announced it will begin testing six new emotional reactions that you can convey with a simple emoji, similar to the thumbs-up “like” icon that the social networking service has made so famous.

Facebook在週四宣佈將開始測試六個新的表情符號，用戶可以通過簡單的表情符號表達情緒，與該社交網絡服務捧紅的大拇指符號代表的“贊”類似。

The six new emoji depict various expressions, from an open mouth to express surprise to a scowling red face for anger. The other four emotions are love, laughter, sadness and a supportive cheer.

這六個新表情符號描述了各種各樣的表情，從表示吃驚的張大嘴巴，到表示憤怒的紅臉。另外四個符號分別代表愛、大笑、悲傷和支持歡呼。

The new reaction icons will be available to most Facebook users in Spain and Ireland by the end of this week. Adam Mosseri, who oversees Facebook’s news feed, said the company would evaluate how people in those two countries use the new buttons and refine them, before expanding the rollout to the company’s 1.5 billion users worldwide later this year.

至本週末，西班牙及愛爾蘭的大部分Facebook用戶將可以開始使用這些新表情符號。Facebook負責新聞訂閱事宜的亞當·莫塞裏(Adam Mosseri)表示，該公司會評估這兩個國家的用戶使用新按鈕的情況，進行改進，然後在今年晚些時候將適用範圍擴展至全球15億用戶。

“How do people use it? Is this the right set of reactions?” Mr. Mosseri said in an interview.

莫塞裏接受採訪時表示，“人們會怎麼使用？這些代表了正確的反應嗎？”

Mark E. Zuckerberg, Facebook’s co-founder and chief executive, said last month that the company planned to test a way to “dislike” a post. “I do think it’s important to give people more options than just like,” he said at that time.

Facebook聯合創始人、首席執行官馬克·E·扎克伯格(Mark E. Zuckerberg)在上個月表示，該公司計劃測試一種表示“不喜歡”一篇帖子的方法。他當時表示，“我覺得給人們提供除了贊之外的更多選擇是非常重要的。”

While none of the new buttons are labeled that way, the angry and sad faces are designed to be tools for users to express negative emotions in a sympathetic way.

雖然新按鈕沒有這種情緒表達，但憤怒和悲傷的面部表情旨在讓用戶通過表示同情的方式表達負面情緒。