How to create the avatar on Facebook

A new, rather hidden, feature has come out on Facebook that allows you to create your own avatar, customized as you want. The avatar is a character drawn like a cartoon that can be created from scratch by composing various parts of the body and face and used as an emoji in chats and comments. While there are many, many applications and websites to create custom avatars, Facebook ones can be created directly from within the application for Android and iPhone.

These Facebook avatars can then be used as adhesive stickers in comments to friends’ posts, so as to be able to express themselves in a personalized and unique way, with a face that looks like ours (or as you prefer) and also within the Facebook chat Messenger.

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To create the avatar on Facebook it is therefore necessary to use the Facebook application on Android smartphones and tablets or on iPhone / iPad and then open a friend’s post as per enter a comment. Instead of writing the comment, you can press the emoticon key (the one in the writing box, not the one on the phone keypad) and instead of sending a Sticker, tap on the key of the facet with tongue out above to enter “Create Avatar” mode. Now (wait if the loading is not immediate or tap on the white) you can press the blue button: Create your avatar.
You can also create an avatar in the Facebook app by pressing the three-line button and then going up More> Avatars
The procedure for creating the avatar is guided and allows you to choose: skin complexion, hair cut (short, medium, long, straight, curly, color), face shape and of the chin, the shape of the eyes, the color of the eyes, the make up of the eyes, the eyebrows, the glasses, the shape of the nose, the shape of the mouth, mustache and beard, the build (here you can select the body for women or men), clothes (male or female), hat or headdress.
Finally, press the v key at the top right to save the Facebook avatar.
After creation, you can see the avatar generated by Facebook, tap the pencil button to edit it or press the button to view all the stickers with different expressions that can be used. The avatar will then be smiling, angry, with tears and with all the various facets of the preconfigured stickers. You can also set the avatar as your profile picture by pressing the arrow key.
The avatar is automatically saved and becomes usable in Facebook comments pressing the open-mouthed laughing face key (which is added to the GIF and sticker keys).
It should be noted, then, that once the avatar is created from the Facebook application, this also becomes available to comment on posts on the Facebook site. Open the Facebook site on your PC, click on the comment box under a post and then press the stickers button to notice the appearance, among the sticker categories, of the face that laughs with the tongue out, which represents the avatar of Facebook.
To edit the created avatar, you can use the Facebook app and use the “Edit avatar” button when you want to post it in the comments or you can also tap the three-line icon of the Facebook app, the one that leads to the Settings, and then, under the section Other, press on Avatars.
The Facebook avatar can also be created within the Messenger chat, in the same way, by pressing the blue emoticon button to send a sticker sticker and then going to the stickers section.
The avatar created on Facebook can then be used within the Messenger app and also on the messenger.com site opened from a PC.

If you want send Facebook avatar on other apps like Whatsapp or other chats, you can do this by pressing on Edit Avatar from the Facebook app (not on Messenger). While editing, press on the sticker button, touch one and then press on Other options. The standard sharing window will then open, allowing you to send your personal avatar emoji on Whatsapp or other applications.

Facebook smileys are pretty standard as a design, in fact they are very reminiscent of the customized Bitmoji emoji (Emoticons)

However, I personally think they are better GBoard’s animated stickers based on our photo.
They are prettier than Facebook avatars too the custom 3D Animoji

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