Facebook is one of the leading and trending social networking websites around the world. It acts as a bridge for many countries and there exist over 100 million Facebook users around the world. Facebook made easier to use and communicate with people. Facebook made a step forward and announced 7 new updates to make it easier to use and to communicate with everyone.
On Wednesday at Company’s developer’s conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other executives stated the slew of platform enhancements during F8.
Upcoming updates are:
- You can record Spherical videos and can post them in your newsfeed
- Facebook connects you to e-commerce websites
- You can submit a reply to a message in third-party apps
- Videos posted using Facebook can be inserted anywhere else via online
- Your comment on a story somewhere else will be displayed in Facebook
- You can control more devices using your Facebook account
- Developers are able to get analytics for their apps
1. You can record Spherical videos and can post them in your newsfeed
In upcoming updates, Facebook will support 360-degrees camera technology in the same way the Google Maps Street View photos are captured. These videos allow you to change the outlook you see with the help of clicking and dragging on the screen. Recently Google also announced to support these types of videos in YouTube.
2. Facebook connects you to e-commerce websites
In upcoming updates, Facebook offers to track your online purchases. When you make a purchase online then connect your Facebook account to it, so that the e-commerce companies will send you the updates of delivery about what you bought using messaging features on Facebook. In case of getting multiple updates via email for purchases, Facebook might be helpful to track details of the order such as date of shipment and date of delivery of returns very easily.
3. You can submit a reply to a message in third-party apps
Previously, you would have to close the messenger app to open any third party apps like GIF creator then create a GIF and then it must be copied it into a message. But now, you can open any third party apps within the Messenger app to send a message. Facebook messenger allows its users to download third party apps directly from messenger platform.
David Marcus, Head of Messenger Team said, "We truly feel that, together, we have a shot at reinventing how a billion people communicate every day.” He added his love to GIFs. "They make the world a little better."
4. Videos posted using Facebook can be inserted anywhere else via online
Any video uploaded via Facebook can be used or inserted anywhere as like YouTube. This made users more attractive to Facebook. Previously, any videos posted using Facebook cannot be inserted anywhere but they can share it.
5. Your comment on a story somewhere else will be displayed in Facebook
If you want to say something about an article you read, that comment will soon be shown automatically under the story posted to Facebook. This new change will help intended media companies easier to gain more attachment or engagement with their content posted.
First media companies to test this update are Buzz Feed, The Huffing ton Post, Elite Daily, and Fox Sports.
6. You can control more devices using your Facebook account
Facebook offers new ways for its developers to build programs that control anything from your doorstep.
Ilya Sukhar co-founder and CEO of Parse told, “We want to be with you when you start these types of experiments.”
6. Developers are able to get analytics for their apps
The free dashboard facility will help creators or developers to see who is interacting with their apps and places where they are coming from across all devices around the world.