How to Use Symbols to Make Pictures in Facebook
From emoticons to unicode art, Facebook offers you different ways to spice up your chats and status updates. You can enter various symbols or exotic letters to stand on their own or you can combine them with others to create your own images. The combination of Facebook's default emoticon symbols, unicode art and Windows' built-in symbol library mean the combinations are essentially limitless. You can create images in Facebook using nothing but symbols in a few simple steps.
Instructions
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Type "www.facebook.com" into your Web browser and press "Enter."
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Enter your email address and password in the appropriate boxes and click "Login."
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Click the "Chat" tab located in the lower-right side of the page.
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Select an online contact by clicking their name.
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Enter the symbols that correspond to the image you would like to make along with your message and type "Enter."
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Tips & Warnings
You can also create unicode art in Facebook status updates or when responding to the updates of others by entering the symbols one by one and then pressing "Shift" and "Enter" at the same time when you need a new line.
You can create special letters and symbols by pressing the "Alt" key and various number keys at the same time. Click "Start," type "Character Map" into the search bar and then click the "Character Map" result to see a list of these symbols.
