What Does OBJ Mean on Facebook?

Have you ever seen the acronym OBJ being used on Facebook? If not, then we aren’t too surprised.

Despite being a regularly used acronym, the interesting thing about OBJ is that it refers to something that looks different. That is, OBJ is the acronym used to refer to the error character that replaced an emoji or particular character that a user cannot see.

OBJ Definition

OBJ stands for ‘Object Replacement Character’ – with the OBJ a shorthand way of referring to the Object.

You will notice an OBJ because it sits in place of a character that you might expect to see in a comment or post on Facebook. You will often be able to tell, by the placement and context of the OBJ, whether it has replaced an emoji or a character / piece of punctuation within a statement.

It will usually look like a small square box with a question mark inside it.

Why Might You See an OBJ?

The main reason that you will see an OBJ is because your device, system, or the version of the app you are using does not support the character that has been used in the post.

It could also be that the particular character used is designed for Androids or iPhones, and you are browsing on the alternative system.

Suffice to say, short of ensuring that your app is updated, there is often not much that you can do to unlock these OBJ errors and unknown characters. You can only hope that they aren’t concealing an important part of the message or post that you’re reading.