The social network Facebook has had to constantly fight against the criticism received around the concept of privacy And it is that more than one user has ended up disenchanted with this platform social when they found out that other people knew the content they published on through your wall. An issue that Facebook has been solving with tools to edit the level of privacy of this content and which, apparently, has now gone as far as creating a new application
At least that's how it emerges from the rumors that the media outlet TechCrunch claims to have thanks to close sources So Facebook would be working on a new app with the nickname Moments (moments in English), and focused on being able to share content securely and privately All this just as it happens in Facebook, but with certain extra facilities in its management and a remarked privacy to provide that point of security that many users complain on the social network.
At the moment the application Moments would be in internal testing phase , being used by the own Facebook workers According to the sources, its design is simple, based on a grid with the contacts with whom you want to share some content .What is new is that these grids would not be made up of individual contacts, but of small groups of users who could interact around the family, closest friends, work colleagues” ¦
In this way, all you have to do is select one of the groups and share there any image, video, web page or content. Always with the certainty that no one else will be able to access those issues outside of that group of users. This would avoid many of the problems that users encounter on Facebook, such as family members commenting on photos that have been shared only for the interest of close friends, with the consequent situation of ridicule. Or to achieve more intuitive control when sharing content, without relying on a public wall for everything.
Moments can remind regular users of Facebook to Facebook groups and lists. Some characteristics that according to TechCrunch are already used by 500 million users on this social network. Something that would enable the success of this application to share content using these relationships. Of course, at the moment it is unknown how Moments would work, although it would use the relationships already created in the social network or each user would have to form their new groups with which share more privately.
However, there is also the possibility that Moments is a mere experiment. A way of looking for new ways to improve the functioning of the social network without it curdling and forging as an extra application of Facebook At the moment they are just something more than rumors, being able to affirm that the application would exist but without knowing even more details apart from its concept and philosophy.We will still have to wait and see if Facebook decides to emphasize the privacy of its network through a new application to send all kinds of content in a much more selective and private than through your wall.
