What’s worse: getting a million responses of “ok” to your message or having no one respond because they don’t want to bother the group?
Either situation is less than ideal, but there’s a new way around it—reactions!
![A red heart, and yellow praying hands, laughing face, thumbs up, and thumbs down emoji.](https://planning-center-blog.ghost.io/content/images/2022/05/group-messaging-churches-emoji-reactions.png)
Reactions are an unobtrusive way to acknowledge, send love, and respond to a topic or reply to a message without blowing up everyone’s phone!
Replies and Topics 🙏
Hold down on any message, and you’ll see a menu that allows you to react, and shows an option to view reactions.
![iPhone Emojis on messages](https://planningcenterassets.s3.amazonaws.com/blog_images/2022/05-17-emojis/screenshot-2.png)
![iPhone with Reactions screen showing people and their specific reactions](https://planningcenterassets.s3.amazonaws.com/blog_images/2022/05-17-emojis/screenshot-3.png)
You can also respond to the topic itself by tapping the new add reaction button.
Stay Notified 👍️ 👎️
If you’re the author of the topic or the message, you’ll be notified anytime someone reacts to your post. And if you no longer want to receive notifications for a specific group, you can say so in your notification settings.
![iPhone with notifications screen on Church Center](https://planningcenterassets.s3.amazonaws.com/blog_images/2022/05-17-emojis/screenshot-4.png)
![iPhone with close up view of messages and emojis](https://planningcenterassets.s3.amazonaws.com/blog_images/2022/05-17-emojis/screenshot-5.png)
Start reacting today with the latest Church Center update!
Keep your community connected,
🧡 Team Groups