{"id":93556,"date":"2017-09-07T10:17:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T10:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=93556"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:47:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:47:32","slug":"facebook-comments-are-getting-a-troubling-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebook-comments-are-getting-a-troubling-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Comments are getting a Troubling Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another excellent idea has been hatched in Facebook HQ. Oh no wait, it is difficult to <strong>pick up on sarcasm<\/strong> in text format so I\u2019m just going to take the sledgehammer route. Facebook have had another terrible idea that is likely to make Facebook user\u2019s lives a little more sickly.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-93579 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2017\/09\/fb-colors.jpg\" alt=\"fb colors\" width=\"326\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2017\/09\/fb-colors.jpg 558w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2017\/09\/fb-colors-167x300.jpg 167w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/>Having seemingly forgotten that <strong>user comments are not skittles<\/strong>, Facebook\u00a0have decided that having a choice of color for each and <strong>every insignificant and often vitriolic comment people<\/strong> decide to post on Facebook is a choice that the modern social networker can\u2019t go without.<\/p>\n<p>For now, only a small number of users have reported being able to use the new color comment tool but if this goes mainstream<strong> it is going to look a mess<\/strong>. <strong>This limited roll out is exactly the same way they introduced the colored status updates<\/strong> that we all have come to know and \u201clove.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"pb_feed\" data-embed-by=\"337cdca5-a3bb-4ba6-a9ce-8c94a94a5e34\" data-item=\"98eccb1a-f7b7-43d9-a4e7-f9be12b23644\" data-recommend=\"false\" data-game-info=\"false\" data-comments=\"false\" data-shares=\"false\" data-version=\"2\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of this idea from Facebook? <strong>Do you want to feel the rainbow when you\u2019re posting comments<\/strong> on videos or status updates or do you just want to post comments on videos and status updates?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our users have been talking about the <a href=\"https:\/\/solutions.softonic.com\/what-are-the-best-facebook-groups\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">best Facebook groups<\/a>. <strong>Join the conversation now!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x5ynok4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">7 things you should never share on Facebook<\/a> <i>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/softonic-en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">softonic-en<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/facebook\/2017\/09\/06\/facebook-color-background-comments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Next Web<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another excellent idea has been hatched in Facebook HQ. Oh no wait, it is difficult to pick up on sarcasm in text format so I\u2019m just going to take the sledgehammer route. Facebook have had another terrible idea that is likely to make Facebook user\u2019s lives a little more sickly. Having seemingly forgotten that user &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebook-comments-are-getting-a-troubling-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Facebook Comments are getting a Troubling Update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9073,"featured_media":93559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2353],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-93556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionfacebook"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328589,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93556\/revisions\/328589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93556"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=93556"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=93556"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=93556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}