The original Reddit post titled, "Am I not adult enough to be comfortable with the 'thumbs up' emoji reaction?" got a shocking amount of replies from both ends of the spectrum.

Currently, there only a few emojis you can use to react to a message (unless of course, you respond, and can use any emoji),” they wrote. “Most people at work use the ‘thumbs up’ reaction ...

Reactions spread to smartphones too, especially after Apple gave its iPhone emoji keyboard to the world in 2011. Now people started sending text messages that contained nothing other than a symbol ...

Adding reactions to daily communications is a growing trend. Microsoft is rolling out a Like button for email on Outlook, and Slack users can already react to a message with any emoji they want to ...

Meanwhile, the use of expanded emoji reactions has become more common since Facebook’s emoji reaction set debuted in 2015. Since then, other social media sites adopted their use, like LinkedIn.

After a Reddit poster confessed to being “not adult enough to be comfortable with the thumbs-up emoji reaction,” others chimed in to agree and to call out other common emojis such as the red ...

It looks like Google is starting to roll out an emoji chat reaction feature to its Google Messages app. This a feature that’s supported by RCS conversations only and will eventually make its way ...

Per this survey I just took, Twitter is considering adding emoji reaction sets and downvoting. ... The survey also flagged the idea of a downvote button like the one used on Reddit.

These 11 upcoming emoji reactions would help users to be more expressive. They include the thumbs up and thumbs down emojis , as well as the heart, party hat, and poop emojis.

Neither emoji reactions nor downvotes would be a unique feature of Twitter. Facebook employs a set of the former, and the latter is a central feature of Reddit and YouTube comment sections.