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How Do I Post Facebook Updates with My Avatar In The Background?

January 2, 2021 / Dave Taylor / Facebook Help / 16 Comments

I notice that some of my friends are posting updates on Facebook that have festive backgrounds featuring a cartoon version of themselves. I want to be able to do that too! How can I accomplish the task?

There’s one big step you have to go through before you can proceed with the holiday themed backgrounds to your Facebook posts: Create your Facebook Avatar. It can only be done from the Facebook for Mobile app, so you’ll be doing the task on your Android or iPhone device. I have a detailed tutorial that’ll help you do it quickly: How To Create Your Facebook (Animoji) Avatar.

Got it all set up? Great! Then let’s proceed…

After standing out as the boring but clean looking blue and white design of early days, differentiating it from the eyesore of MySpace’s chaos, Facebook has gradually allowed for more and more personalization so that our posts can stand out in people’s endless newsstream. First it was colored backgrounds, then graphical wallpapers, but now once you have your Facebook avatar all set up, it occasionally includes very personalized wallpapers that include, well, you in the graphic! They’re accessible through the same mechanism you use for any post, and once you’ve set up your Facebook avatar on your mobile, work on both mobile and desktop Facebook.

HOW TO USE PERSONALIZED FACEBOOK AVATAR WALLPAPERS

It seems like these appear for specific holidays and then vanish again, so once the Christmas/New Year’s ones vanish, I expect that some tied to Valentine’s Day and then spring will appear. So let’s get this demo going stat!

As always, here’s what you see on the Desktop FB interface before you’ve clicked or started typing in your message:

facebook status update - no data entered

As soon as you click on the box with “What’s on your mind, Dave?” (well, with your name substituted, of course) it opens up to a bigger box with more options:

facebook status update - ready for data entry

If there are avatar-themed wallpapers available, they’ll show up along the row of wallpaper buttons on the bottom. You can see in the above that there are three different options at this moment. A click on the first one, with the green background, for example, and this is now what’s on screen:

facebook status update - christmas theme avatar background wallpaper

I missed Christmas by a week so that’s not a great choice (though it is still the twelve days of Christmas, I don’t think many people actually keep count), but it does bring up a question: How do you change to see another one if that’s all it’s showing?

The answer is: scroll down on the image. It’s not a great design, but some of these wallpapers are longer than the default update entry window area, so while the row of background wallpapers is still present – allowing you to try another one – you can’t see ’em.

Just below the visible area is this:

facebook status update - christmas theme avatar background wallpaper visible options

Ahhhh now you can see what’s going on. Not only that, but it’s easy to see about the 2020 wallpaper…

facebook status update - 2020 hny new year theme avatar background wallpaper

Or check out the lighter blue New Year’s Eve party wallpaper, for that matter…

facebook status update - 2020 hny new year theme avatar background wallpaper party

The other wallpapers shown are also attractive but lack your avatar. If you click on the last of them, with the grid of four black squares, you’ll get to a larger listing of even more background wallpapers. Facebook now has quite a gallery from which we can choose!

I’ll back up to the 2020 wallpaper since it’s now Jan 2 and I can’t really still be celebrating New Year’s Eve. A few words to express my view and I’m ready to share:

facebook post with avatar animjoi background wallpaper image graphic - 2020 new year 2021

And that’s how ya do it. Once you’ve set up your Facebook avatar on your Facebook for Mobile app, it’s pretty easy!

Pro Tip: I’ve been writing about Facebook since it first appeared on the Internet. Please check out my quite extensive Facebook help library for hundreds of useful tutorials and insider tips and tricks. And why not follow AskDaveTaylor on Facebook for even more tips and tricks? Thanks!

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16 comments on “How Do I Post Facebook Updates with My Avatar In The Background?”

  1. Stephanie says:
    April 4, 2021 at 8:29 am

    I have my avatar set up but still no background options. I want background options!!

    Reply
  2. Jen Mac says:
    March 28, 2021 at 9:45 am

    Hey Dave
    Do you happen to know if we can create our own background for our posts?
    These all have such BIG expressions. I would love to create one that is a “thoughtful” expression, Or a meditative state… Something like this.
    Any idea on how to do that or if that is something we can do?
    I have researched a ton but only come to articles that tell me how to customize my avatar not the background.
    Thanks much! Jen

    Reply
    • Dave Taylor says:
      March 29, 2021 at 7:29 am

      You cannot create your own backgrounds, nor do I imagine that Facebook will allow that in the near future, Jen.

      Reply
  3. Rita says:
    March 27, 2021 at 10:34 pm

    Hmmm 🧐 I have an Avatar on my iPhone but NO background options. WHY❓❓❓
    It seems like most of my Facebook friends have them. I’m really green with envy.

    Reply
  4. Kay says:
    March 24, 2021 at 2:52 pm

    Aha! I just figured it out. I just had to click in the exact correct spot on the words. Thank you!

    Reply
  5. Kay says:
    March 24, 2021 at 2:49 pm

    Thank you so much, Dave, for your help. I now have a avatar themed background, but it still says “What’s on your mind, Kay?” I can’t figure out how to get my message in there instead. Any suggestions?
    Thank you, Kay

    Reply
  6. Barb says:
    March 22, 2021 at 10:07 am

    Why doesn’t facebook make this available to everyone? I don’t have this as an option. Is something going to change. This is nuts.

    Reply
  7. Astrid says:
    March 19, 2021 at 6:22 am

    Same here have the avatar but no with background available, I have logged out, delete app, restart iPhone, downloaded the app, logged back in and still nothing… is there a way to activate it?

    Reply
  8. Catherine Deitrich says:
    March 7, 2021 at 2:33 pm

    I have two Facebook accounts. One for work and one I use for personal stuff. The work account has the Avatar backgrounds….my personal account does not. VERY FRUSTRATING!!

    Reply
  9. carol says:
    January 2, 2021 at 4:41 pm

    I have an avatar set up, but have not and still do not have the wallpapers with the avatars. They are just NOT in my selections. Some new ones for the holidays have , yes , phantomly appear, but NONE with avatars !!

    Reply
    • Dave Taylor says:
      January 3, 2021 at 8:29 pm

      Facebook. It often offers features to some users but not others, causing much frustration. Wish I had a solution, Carol…

      Reply
      • Barb says:
        March 12, 2021 at 7:33 am

        Yes why is this option not available to me? Don’t know why and I’ve logged out and gone back in and it still doesn’t appear. Am I doing something wrong?

        Reply
      • Jamie Adkins says:
        March 19, 2021 at 6:14 am

        I do not have any if the options for the avatars even when i followed all of these instructions. I can send my avatar in messenger or comments but no background options are there where you said it was.

        Reply
      • Rosa says:
        March 20, 2021 at 9:30 am

        I still do not have this option available to me.

        Reply
    • Laura says:
      February 10, 2021 at 7:42 pm

      Same here…so frustrating! I don’t understand why avatar-themed wallpapers aren’t available to me and yet I see numerous friends posting with them!

      Reply
      • marina says:
        February 14, 2021 at 1:12 am

        I Am in the same situation… I have avatar but no background…

        Reply

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