Facebook Messenger has new ‘emoji’: more women and even redheads – CNET in Spanish

The new Emoji Facebook Messenger work with iPhones and Android phones .

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If you want to send a text message to a friend that you’re eating pizza with beer ., of course you can write all that Or, you can make as millennials and submit your message with two small drawings. one emoji of pizza and a beer

the point is that the emoji are already everywhere. and now, Facebook is bringing its own set of emoji , specially designed for use chat, Messenger.

on Wednesday, Facebook introduced 1,500 new emoji messaging service. The social network said he tried to make them as diverse as possible. This includes people with different shades of skin and representations of women, among them a policewoman, one running and the other nothing. And for the first time, there is a emoji with red hair.

Before today, you could technically use Emoji in Messenger, but only software through the phone itself, not directly through Facebook messaging application. That means that if you sent an emoji from an iPhone, but it was not available on Android, the recipient will only see a small box with a question mark. And vice versa. (But Messenger already had stickers or stickers , a larger and more detailed a emoji , drawn by various artists versions).

Facebook is not the first company to push the emoji to a more diverse territory. Now you can choose different skin tones for Emoji on iOS and Android. And with the next version of Android, now known as Android N, you can also choose more representations of women working.

They complained about the lack of women? Here they are.

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The War of messaging applications has been warming in Silicon Valley as a new generation of apps, including Snapchat and Kik, are vying to win a piece of the market. Google announced last month its own chat application called Allo, about artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, Facebook has been making other investments in Messenger. In April, the company said it was bringing more chatbots your application to act as customer service representatives, for example.

When we say that Emoji are everywhere, really we mean everywhere. Facebook says that 10 percent of all messages in your messaging app, using some 900 million people each month, contain Emoji.