Currently, we can say that Facebook has billions of active users, thus managing to be one of the largest social networks today, comparing itself with other impressive platforms such as Instagram, Twitter, Tik Tok, Snapchat and others .. All of these have had significant growth in recent years, but Facebook is still fundamental for many .
But all this incredible success has its respective reasons. Facebook over the years has added many absolutely unique specs and features never seen before in this market. Within this great platform we will have the possibility to use a large portfolio of completely useful and interesting tools, options and tools.
One of the factors Facebook has focused on changing and updating is the interface. This is the image that this social network presents to the world, its design is quite important and together with this we can include the multiple tools that make this transformation a great idea. One of them are stickers or GIFs. These tools are widely used when making a comment.
Within these stickers we can find a brand new feature which is the option for create our avatar, but what is it really? Don't worry, we'll explain it to you. Next we will tell you all about Facebook avatars, what they are and how we can create them. Without further ado, follow us and find out the data, information and details about this option.
What are Facebook avatars and how can we use them?
It is a new tool added to various social networks like Snapchat (Bitmoji) and even operating systems like iOS (Memoji). Which is now fully available on Facebook and is known as the Facebook Avatar. These are custom emojis of yourself, which you can use to comment on all kinds of posts or even if you want to relate a post to them.
This is a huge collection of stickers, 47 to be exact, that you can use at any time and whenever you want. You can create your respective Avatar to your liking as you will have a large list of options to customize it your way in order to finally be able to share it with all your friends added to this gigantic and important social network.
When you create your avatar, you can choose your hair type, skin color, clothing, accessories and other personal characteristics and specifications to find that you look as much like you as possible. Thanks to the wide variety of stickers focused on our respective character, we can express all kinds of emotions and feelings with funny and interesting emojis.
Step by step to create your own Facebook avatar
In order to create your own Facebook avatar, you need to follow the steps given below to make it as easy and simple as possible.
Before you begin, make sure you have the latest version of Facebook. You must first enter your Facebook profile from any device; then go to the app menu which is represented by the 3 horizontal lines at the top. Keep going down the menu and you will find where it says "Avatar", click on it, then click Next and then "Start".
At this point you can start playing with the design of your Facebook avatar or sticker; It is necessary that you choose the color of the skin, hair, eyes, hairstyle, clothes and other possible accessories as long as it is very similar to you. Also, this feature allows you to activate the front camera so that you can see yourself, you just have to press where a mirror icon is. When you are done designing your avatar, you have to press Next and then finish and voila, you will see your result.
How to create my Avatar on PC
The first step to create our avatar will log into our Facebook account and then go to any post that is on your wall, from there we will go to the comment box and select the “Create your avatar” option.
Hence our task will be choose how to customize our character, the first thing will be the avatar complexion, then go through the hairstyle, face, eyes, figure, clothes, accessories, lenses and other features and tools to add.
You will also have the ability to activate the mirror option, which will allow Facebook to take a picture of you and from there create the avatar focusing on your characteristics and facets so that in this way it is possible to make it as similar as possible to you.
Once you have performed all these steps or activated the mirror function, we will only have to accept all the changes made and finally save our respective avatar. From now on you can comment on all types of publications with yours new and amazing stickers of yourself, you can also edit it.
How to create my Avatar on Facebook Lite
Facebook Lite is a version of the social network preferred by thousands of users around the world, unlike the original platform, this mode stands out in that manages to be less heavy and to take up less storage space on devices, which makes it more palatable.
However, the Avatar feature (the recent craze for personal emojis) it is not applicable on this version of Facebook, that is, it cannot be performed. At the moment it is not known why it is not included in this version, but if you want to have your Avatar, you must download the original app as it is not possible to do this from the official site.
How to create my avatar on Facebook if the option does not appear
The steps that are applied so that you can create your Avatar are in a general way and adaptable in the different devices, since it is the original application as such. However, this option may not appear on your mobile phone, which can occur for a few reasons.
The most common thing is that you don't have the latest version of Facebook installed and therefore does not appear; It could also be that you are trying to do this from the website or using the Lite version of it; but it turns out that this function is not enabled for either of the two modes mentioned above.
Another reason could be that you don't have a Facebook compatible device and does not update you, or that the cache has problems. Therefore, you have to delete the data from the cache, restart the phone and even delete and reinstall Facebook on your mobile.
Once the problem has been solved where the option to create the Avatar does not appear; then there if you can follow the instructions given at the beginning of the article and be able to run them without any problem.
Use stickers based on your avatar
Once you have created your personal emoji, you can share it on your Facebook or Messenger with great ease. As soon as you have done this, you will have an option to share the full avatar on your Facebook profile for your friends and followers to see; It can also be placed as a profile or cover photo on this social network.
On the other hand, you can send it as a reply in Messenger or even if you want to make a publication, you can also post it there. It works as follows: first open your device keyboard and click where the emojis appear, here you can see and share them.
As a last resort, you can too use it to reply to posts that tag you or just post it as a comment on any post. In that sense, it automatically exits in the default answers or you can apply the process from the previous paragraph and voila, it's that easy.
How to edit an Avatar already created by Facebook
Facebook offers its users the possibility to modify or modify some details of your already created Avatar. This is possible by following the steps that we will provide you below:
- Log into Facebook
- Open the keyboard and go to where the emojis are
- Here you should look at the option that says "edit avatar"
- Click there and you can make the necessary changes
- When you think it is ready again, click "Next"
- Finally, click "finish and save" and that's it, your avatar will be updated with the changes made
