Make a Heart on Facebook
Making a heart on Facebook is a fun way to express your undying love and affection - whether it's for your significant other, best friend, or just a picture of a really cute puppy. There are several easy ways to make this universal symbol of care and romance, all of which take approximately two seconds! See Step 1 below to get started.
Steps
Simple Pink Heart
- Write <3. Then press enter. Once published, your <3 will be replaced with a pink colored β₯.
Emoji Heart
- Use heart-shaped emoji. Not everyone will believe it, but the icons you see in Step 2 below are actually hidden heart-shaped emoji.
- If you're a Chrome user, you will see plain black squares, and if you're a Firefox, IE or Safari user, you will see plain black hearts.
- All you need to do is copy the square/heart you want and paste it into a Facebook post or comment.
- Once you post your comment, it will magically turn into one of the hearts described below.
- Copy and paste a pre-typed heart. You can use one of the following:
- Beating Heart--π
- Broken Heart-- π
- Sparkling Heart--π
- Growing Heart--π
- Heart with Arrow/ Fall in Love--π
- Blue Heart--π
- Green Heart--π
- Yellow Heart--π
- Red Heart--β€οΈ
- Purple Heart --π
- Heart with Ribbon--π
Old-School Techniques
- Use the Character Map on a PC. This will give you access to a wide array of symbols, hearts, skulls, and much more. Simply open Character Map, and click on the desired symbol.
- You can open character map on Windows XP, Windows 7 or Windows 8 by going to the start menu and looking under All Programs β Accessories β System Tools β Character Map.
- Use Character Viewer on a Mac. Click on the Character Viewer icon on the menubar, and pick a character set from the left-hand sidebar.
- For example, pictographs contain the heart symbol in both black and white. Click on either, and a list of variations will appear on the right.
- Right-click on the desired heart variation and copy to the clipboard.
- Paste into Facebook, and delete the extra font information, leaving only the heart.
- Use the Alt-codes on a PC. This technique will work on most computers running Windows. Press and hold the Alt key. Next, click the 3 key on your number pad. The heart symbol will appear.
- Try Shift + Ins. For some computers, another combination will work. Press down Shift and Ins at the same time, which will make the β₯ symbol.
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