Facebook Launches Avatars in India

Launch of Facebook Avatars in India was announced. This will help users create a unique digital persona.

With much of our social interaction, these days are taking place online, it’s more important than ever to be able to express yourself personally on Facebook. Facebook Avatars will allow users to create a digital persona that’s uniquely representative of them and will enable them to share a range of emotions and expressions in a fun and personalized way.

Starting today, people in India will be able to make an Avatar, a cartoon-like version of themselves by choosing from a variety of faces, hairstyles, and outfits that have been specially customized for India. Users will also be able to use their Avatar in Facebook comments, stories, your profile picture, and Facebook Messenger chat windows and can even share it on WhatsApp chats.

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How to create your avatar:

Avatar creator enables people to customize how they want to represent themselves across many dimensions such as facial features, hair, and outfits (to name a few!). This creator can be accessed from Bookmarks in your FB app, as well as from the comment composer. It’s also easy to access the avatar creator from someone else’s avatar shared across Facebook.

To create one's avatar, use your mobile device and go to the Facebook or Messenger comment composer, click on the “smiley” button, and then the sticker tab. Click “Create Your Avatar”! Or find the avatar creator in the Bookmarks section in your Facebook app.