The new Facebook Stories tool is now available
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Facebook has finished testing its latest feature and is starting to roll it out through its mobile app. This is Facebook Stories, which we learned of its existence last January And it is that the social network began to test it first-hand with Irish users. Now open the ban to anyone being able to share ephemeral photos and videos that will disappear in the next 24 hours.
No. It's not déjà vu.Facebook has shamelessly copied Instagram's strategy. Do not forget that they are two companies of the same company. In turn, Instagram copied it from Snapchat This demonstrates the interest that Mark Zuckerberg's social network has always shown in Snapchat and its ephemeral operation. Or rather, by the young public that fled from Facebook to go to the ghost application. You now have many of its features on the world's largest social network.
How Facebook Stories Work
In Facebook they have not broken their heads when it comes to adapting this functionality. Just as you can enjoy on Instagram for months now, the social network now has a section at the top of its application. It collects the profile pictures of friends in circles. In this way, you just have to click on any of them to start seeing the ephemeral content they have shared
Photos and videos follow each other continuously. Just click on the stories of a contact and enjoy their content. After seeing one thing, you go directly to the next one All this from left to right to know the moments, experiences and thoughts shared.
Create your own Facebook story
Of course, each user can share their own content through their story. Something that has nothing to do with your profile wall. And it is that what goes through the stories of Facebook does not have to transcend beyond this function. The wall remains, the history disappears.
Just click on the user's own profile image in the stories section.From here, the terminal's camera activates to capture any scene It does not matter if it is behind or in front of the terminal, since both cameras are accessible. In fact, it is possible to access the user's gallery through the button in the lower right corner. This can reveal any snapshot or previously stored content.
A point in favor is that Facebook has seen fit to copy some of the features that already stood out in Snapchat. Elements such as live and direct filters, with which to give an artistic and fun touch to all these ephemeral moments, even before capturing them. These filters can change the color of the scene, or even detect the face and apply deformation effects.
Once captured, these stories remain in the section for 24 hours. They are accessible to all friends of this social network. After that time they disappear forever. A simple moment not to remember, but to share.
At the moment the function is arriving in stages, being progressively activated on mobile phones. It may still take several days to land in all users' applications.
