Facebookannounceda heavy update to its Messenger app today , and it ’s go to impart a whole lot of diversity to its emojis .
As part of the more than 1,500 newly designed emojis , users will get to choose from a range of skin tones , as well as a selection of professional women , and — kudos be to Carrot Top , Lindsay Lohan , and most of my great aunts — redheads .
The raw emojis will be standardize across every platform , which means no more mysterious black public square where your eggplant was supposed to be . Although some of the changes in interrogative sentence — like the option to custom-make skin color , which is line with aJune 2015 Unicode update — have been uncommitted on Io for some clip , the new standardization think of that no matter what platform you ’re on , thing will look the same .
Facebook is , however , adding some brand young faces . Five emojis — police officer , runner , pedestrian , surfer , and swimmer — will now look as both male and female , a change that comes on theheels of a similar proposalfrom a team at Google , because it ’s 2016 , and adult female can do whatever they damn well please .
And though the unexampled addition of redheaded emoji was relegated to a single sentence in Facebook ’s web log post , the option is no doubt charge shockwaves through the redheaded community — myself include — which haslong calledfor some ginger mental representation . Justice !
According to Facebook , the changes will start out roll out globally tomorrow , so pitch up for some reasonably new faces in Facebook confabulation .
[ The Next Web ]
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