Thanks to Facebook’s Avatar feature that launched in the app for iOS and Android users in May 2020, you’ve probably seen the social media company's take on personal doppelgängers flooding your feed.

If you were on Facebook this weekend, you no doubt saw that it was flooded with oddly puerile cartoon characters that look like something out of an early-2000s children’s show. They’re called Avatars, ...

Facebook has created a new feature on its mobile phone app—making a cartoon avatar. While creating avatars in itself isn't new, with mobile users across the world using services such as Bitmoji, this ...

Say goodbye to the days of only being able to express your emotions through the generic sad, happy, angry or thumbs up emojis on Facebook. Facebook rolled out its Avatar feature to users in the US ...

Want to join in on the fun and make a Facebook avatar of your own, but can’t? You’re not alone, according to KSAT. Fidji Simo, the head of the Facebook app, answered some questions after the avatars ...

What is an avatar and what is it for? An avatar is a cartoon-style representation of yourself, they are fully customisable to achieve as much likeness as possible. An avatar can be used as a smiley or ...

After a decade of dominance, Snapchat's Bitmoji now has some competition on the cartoon yourself market. Facebook rolled out its Avatar feature to users in the US this week, after launching it last ...

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Facing a barrage of little cartoon renderings of your friends and family? Thank Facebook, which recently rolled out its avatar feature. And thank quarantine, for those endless, indistinguishable hours ...

Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Facebook today rolled out its Avatars — the Bitmoji-esque ...