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Facebook Emojis Gives You More Than A Like

(CBS) -- Facebook is no longer confining users to simply "liking" a post.

Now, folks can react to friends' posts with a series of new emojis.

On Wednesday, the social media kingpin added "haha," "angry," "love" and three other responses.

To use the new options, simply hover your mouse over the word "like" and six options appear.

In changing a core part of Facebook – the 7-year-old "like" button has become synonymous with the social network – the company said it tried to keep things familiar.

Facebook chose to offer more nuanced reactions – "love," "haha," "wow," "sad" and "angry" – alongside "like" – to give users "greater control over their expressivity," says Julie Zhuo, Facebook's product design director.

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