Mark Zuckerberg recently inferred that Facebook was looking to expand its Like button, leading many to believe that the oft-requested Dislike button was coming. Facebook calmed those rumors, and has now revealed its new experiment that may become the expanded Like button. Facebook Reactions is a set of six emoji that will sit alongside the standard Like button, allowing Facebook users to better express their feelings about a post.

Reactions gives off vibes of the reaction buttons that social network Path used, which had five emoji that you could choose from. In comparison to a Dislike button, Reactions are much better, offering a wider array of emotions to choose from and avoiding the negative connotations that come with a Dislike button, which raised concerns of cyber-bullying.

Facebook isn’t making Reactions worldwide just yet. The company will begin testing the feature within Ireland and Spain. Both countries have relatively isolated friend groups within their countries, allowing for a closer-knit test market to gather research from. They also offer the chance to see how Reactions plays with English and non-English speakers, and whether it needs to be tweaked for different countries.

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Netflix is one of the most successful subscription services of all time, and with good reason. It offers subscribers an enormous library of streaming, DVD and Blu-Ray titles with several affordable plans to choose from in order to get the best setup for you. Now, for the first time in a while, Netflix is upping its price on its most popular plan, the standard plan.

Beginning on November 11, new customers will pay $9.99/month for the standard plan, a $1 rise over the existing price of $8.99/month. Interestingly, Netflix’s website is already showing the price increase, so we’ll have to see how that plays out. As for existing customers on the standard plan, they’ll be grandfathered into the existing price until October 2016, which gives people an entire year to calm down over the thought of their Netflix price going up. For a reminder, the standard plan includes viewing on up to two screens at a time as well as HD video playback.

The prices on other Netflix plans will remain the same.

The $1 increase on the standard plan is nothing to get worried about and won’t affect most until a year from now as it is. Netflix is a company that has done its best to keep prices extremely affordable, and this new change shows that the company is continuing that trend, making it a wise move in the eyes of customers. As for Netflix’s shareholders, they seem happy with the increase plan, with Netflix stock rising by over 2% after the announcement.

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