If you use an Android phone or computer to browse Facebook, you will often find that the “OBJ” symbol often appears in your Facebook friends’ posts. If you ask the friend who posted the message what “OBJ” means, your friend will always be confused and tell him that the “OBJ” symbol does not appear on his iPhone?
What does “OBJ” mean? Why does the symbol “OBJ” appear in Facebook friend posts? Here is an explanation:
1.What is “OBJ”?
“OBJ” = Object Replacement Character, which means “object replacement character”. It means that the other party’s post has special objects that cannot be displayed normally on your mobile phone or computer.
2. Why does the “OBJ” symbol appear in Facebook friend posts?
When “OBJ” appears in a Facebook friend’s post, it usually means that the other party uses an iPhone to use the new eMoji pattern for iOS in the Facebook post. If it cannot be displayed in the Facebook feed on an Android phone or computer screen, the “OBJ” symbol will appear to replace the eMoji pattern.
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Since the launch of the iOS 13 system, Apple has successively added many eMoji patterns that have not appeared in the past. Taking iOS13 as an example, there are as many as 59 newly added eMoji patterns. If you are using an Android phone, it is easy to see the “OBJ” symbol in your friends’ Facebook posts, but your friends who use iPhone are not aware of the problem.
With the redesign of Facebook, the frequency of seeing the “OBJ” symbol in friends’ Facebook posts will decrease. However, as soon as new eMoji patterns are added to iOS, the “OBJ” nightmare problem will arise again. The person who untie the bell needs the person who tied the bell. We can only remind people using iPhones to try not to use the newly added eMoji patterns in Facebook posts, so as not to cause trouble to users using Android phones when reading Facebook posts. In short, the only way to solve the problem of “OBJ” symbols appearing in friends’ Facebook posts is to wait for Facebook to revise its version、Please friends, please stop using the new eMoji pattern to post, or join the iPhone lineup together, XD!
Editor’s note: I personally found that when using iPhone voice input, “OBJ” will easily appear on FB on the computer.
Source: KOCPC Chinese