Facebook introduces a temporary flower reaction for Mother’s Day

Over 40 countries worldwide celebrate Mother’s Day on May 8th. This year, Facebook introduced a new temporary flower reaction to celebrate Mother’s Day, offering a digital flower to those who forgot to buy flowers to their moms.

Facebook testing 'Thankful' (flower emoji) reaction? 'Yay' and 'Confused' are no more. Source: Facebook page source) pic.twitter.com/32MmoJWHtF

— Sreedev Sharma (@sreedevsharma) May 5, 2016

The success of this update might bring more temporary reactions in the future, and even more “sponsored reactions”.

Also, it may become Facebook’s answer to Google Doodles.

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