Facebook stickers are now available in comments

The social network expanded its stickers feature to comments on Timeline, Groups and Events posts Monday.

Stickers, Facebook's big emoji-like icons, have been available within Messages and in the Messenger app for sometime but were not available outside of messages, Mashable,com reports.

Stickers in comments will work the same way— users begin with only a few stickers but can get more from Facebook's in-app Sticker Store. Stickers are grouped in themed packs and often based around movie releases, (Muppets Most Wanted and Despicable Me 2, for example), sports teams or popular games.

"I think stickers will allow people to reply to a variety of posts in a more fun way than words alone," Facebook engineer Bob Baldwin wrote in a Facebook post. "You can now easily show your excitement for a post with good news, cheer up a friend who's feeling down, and express a variety of more nuanced reactions."