By popular demand, Facebook is going beyond the ubiquitous thumbs-up button with a new shorthand to express your thoughts and feelings.

Acknowledging that "like" isn't the right sentiment for every occasion, the giant social network is offering new options. Reactions, five emoting emojis, started rolling out to Facebook's nearly 1.6 billion users around the globe Wednesday.

With a click of a button, you can choose from new emotions when commenting on a status update.

Hold the "like" button on mobile or hover over the like button on desktop and five animated emojis pop up. Tap on love, haha, wow, sad or angry to express your reaction.

Posts in News Feed will now show a tally of the reactions — how many loves, how many wows — a post gets.