Facebook will have its own Bitmoji-style Avatars

A few years ago Bitmoji got the monopoly and all the attention on creating your alter ego on social media. A kind of drawn double, almost caricatured, capable of starring in all kinds of scenes that ended up being published on social networks like Facebook. Now the thing has evolved, and what is taken are the stickers or stickers that represent you and that express feelings and situations. Just what you need when talking to friends and family on WhatsApp or Snapchat.Well, Facebook does not want to be left behind and has already launched Avatars, or avatars. His own version of this concept.

At the moment only users in Australia can enjoy their Avatars, and the launch is being progressive to see how they are adopted and adapted by users of Facebook and Facebook Messenger. However, it is expected that by the end of 2019 or the beginning of 2020 everyone will have access to these cartoonized versions of themselves for the social network and its messaging applications.

The idea is that users create their own avatar, making it look like them thanks to all the customization options available. Facebook has worked in detail to be able to represent all kinds of races, skin and hair types, and even incorporate religious clothing like the hijab In this way anyone can feel identified with his avatar and present a realistic version of himself, although the whole is still a cartoon.With this, Facebook offers all kinds of expressions and reactions that become stickers. Something that could replace, in part, the classic emoticons or GIFs that are used today. Although we will have to see how users accept this new version of the Bitmoji from a few years ago. And it is that it is still an outdated idea that seems to have been dusted off.

Total freedom to create your Avatar

Facebook has made it clear that it wants to allow users around the world to represent themselves with their avatar. As we said, the creation system has all kinds of elements, traits and clothing so that the created beings resemble the users as much as possible In addition, they have integrated the function (currently only in Australia) in the most natural way possible to start creating these avatars at any time.

The function can be found both in the social network Facebook and in the messaging application Facebook Messenger. When creating a new publication or writing a new message, we will find a smiley face. It is the usual menu where you can find the stickers or GIFs The difference is that there will be a new section for Avatars.

The creation process begins with a neutral avatar, which we can modify at will throughout its entire being. Skin color, eye color, hair color and style, clothing, etc Once we have gone through the different sections of the editor, the character will be created and Facebook will show different situations and expressions carried out by said avatar.

With this, again on the Facebook or Facebook Messenger face button, we will have at our disposal a whole pack of expressions and situations in the form of stickers or stickers Thus, all that remains is to click on any of them to share them and further personalize conversations and publications.

Facebook is currently looking into including these avatars in features like pages and groups, where users may feel more comfortable taking advantage of these alters ego than their own profile pictures. Although it is possible that, depending on its adoption, it will be extended to more functions.

The function will be free, and at the moment no details are known about possible ways of entry for Facebook with sponsored garments or paid decorative elements . And it is that first they have to get people to use this function.