Facebook introduces 'flower' reaction button to mark Mother's Day

Facebook’s flower emoticon attracted a lot of confused responses with many users surprised to find the purple flower emoticon along with the other six already existing reactions ( 'like', 'love', 'wow ', 'haha', 'sad' and 'angry') for posts.



When you react with the flower emoji on any post, it says 'Thankful', confusing many on what it really means. So people decided to give it their own meaning.

I think there is another emoji created by Facebook looks like purple flower. It can be given to anybodies crush or girlfriend

What's the new purple "flower" emoji on FB even mean? You can't use a non emotional emoji to comment on a Trump article?! Fuck your flower!

Some users were happy with the new emoji even without knowing what it really means.

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There's a new emoji. Its a purple flower <3 I guess I'll be a lot more thankful now! :D

Have you seen what happens when you choose the purple flower reaction emoji?? It's in the options with the "like"! Super cute!

Others have their own ideas about what Facebook should add.

Facebook added a purple flower emoji as a reaction but not the eye roll. Not cool. 🙄

I'm glad Facebook added a grateful reaction emoji, but I still think an eye roll or middle finger would have been more useful.

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Facebook finally shed some light on the development and clarified that the emoji, in fact, is a temporary reaction to mark Mother’s Day which falls this Sunday, May 14, The Economic Times reported.

So, while many of us will be buying flowers for the inspiring women in our lives, Facebook is offering you a digital version of that.

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This is not the first time Facebook has introduced this reaction. Even last year on Mother’s Day, Facebook introduced the flower emoji which disappeared once the day was over.