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GeoffroyOndet

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The social network has deployed a new feature allowing you to create an avatar in your image. Find out how to create your own now.

You have probably not escaped it. In recent weeks, more and more users have seen avatars like their contacts popping up on their Facebook news feed.

Just two years after being unearthed in the code of iOS and Android applications, Facebook avatars are available and allow users to create a character in their effigy, which they can use as a profile photo, but also in stories. , to comment on posts or react in Messenger. If you don't have your own yet, you can create it now in a few very simple steps.

1. Open the main menu

Launch the Facebook application on your smartphone and go to the main menu (hamburger). Then press See more to unfold the options and enter the menu dedicated to Avatars.

Then press Next and then the Start button.

2. Select your skin color

The first item to select to create your avatar is your skin tone. Select the one that best suits you and press the Next button.

3. Customize your avatar

Facebook then offers to customize your avatar by choosing your haircut. You can then choose their color by dragging the toolbar displayed in the center of the screen.

You can then modify the shape of the face, choose your complexion, your wrinkles, the shape and color of your eyes, by personalizing your eyebrows, add a pair of glasses if you wear them, modify the shape of your nose, mouth, add your facial hair, customize your figure and clothes, etc.

You will be able to check live if your avatar looks like you, without having to stand in front of a mirror by pressing the icon representing a mirror. This will have the effect of activating the front camera of your smartphone so that you can admire yourself in a selfie. Once your customization is complete, press the Finish button.

Your avatar should then be generated by Facebook, which displays a quick preview. Press the Next button and then Finish.

4. Use your avatar

Before starting to use your avatar, it is possible to have a preview of the stickers with your effigy, having been generated. On your avatar view page, press the sticker button.

If you want, you can also share your avatar on your News Feed or set it as a temporary profile picture. To do this, press the arrow displayed at the top right. You can then react to the publications displayed on your feed by adding one or more avatar stickers from the comments.

Although this is not yet the case at the time of writing these lines, these stickers should also be accessible from Facebook Messenger.

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