Facebook now allows sticker comments

 

 

Just when you thought Facebook was getting dull, the social network has come up with a new way to spice up your comments: stickers!

 

Facebook engineer Bob Baldwin said they are bringing the stickers to comments across the social networking giant.

 

"Just tap the smiley face icon in the bottom-right of any comment field to pick a sticker to send. It'll be available to all posts from people, in groups, and on events now," he said in a Facebook post.

 

 

Baldwin said stickers will allow people to reply to a variety of posts "in a more fun way than words alone."

 

"You can now easily show your excitement for a post with good news, cheer up a friend who's feeling down, and express a variety of more nuanced reactions," he said.

 

He noted Stickers in Comments started as a hackathon project in New York between him and colleague Kwame Thomison that quickly caught on with other Facebook employees, he said.

 

"We later built it for mobile web at a hackathon in California, and the iOS and Android versions soon after," he said.

The ability to post graphics is nothing new, since the ability to upload photos in comments has already been around for at least a year now.

However, the sticker feature simplifies the procedure and opens the floodgates to long, graphics-laden comment threads. — Joel Locsin/TJD, GMA News