The five new emotions - which are Love, Angry, Sad, Haha and Wow - appear when you hover over Like on a PC, or hold it down on mobile or tablet.
The social network tried out the new buttons in a pilot in Ireland, Japan and Spain last October.
In a video accompanying a blog post, the five new emotions appear as animated emoticons that pop up from the screen.
Users have long requested a dislike button, but that was thought to be too negative.
Facebook has chosen 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.
Facebook went through comments on friends' posts, as well as emoji-like stickers people were using.
It chose the most common ones and tested those.
Facebook considered dozens of reactions but offering them all would have been confusing
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