Have you used these fun and useful features of Facebook?
colorful background status
This popular feature of Facebook is being used the most these days. This colorful Facebook post feature is available on Android, iOS and the web. With the new feature, you can share just a text post with a colorful background.
To use Facebook’s new colorful post, tap “What’s on your mind?” in the status bar. Then type and then choose the color or gradient of your choice. That’s it. And now share the post.
gif video with camera
When it comes to communication on social media platforms, animated GIF images have become as important as emojis. Emojis and GIFs have transformed conversations into signs and GIFs and sometimes, instead of typing long sentences, just gestures are enough. GIF images are already quite popular on Facebook, and recently, users on Facebook got the option to use GIFs in the comment section. Now, the social networking site has also given users the opportunity to create GIF images of their choice through GIF mode in Facebook camera.
It is worth noting that this feature has been released only on iOS for now. The new GIF option is available when you open the camera in the Facebook app and swipe to the right. And just like the method of creating a GIF, it will last for a few seconds. Along with this, you will also be able to use Facebook effects and frames in the GIF image. Apart from saving the created GIF image to your device, it can also be posted as a profile or Facebook story.
Saved
This is a feature of Facebook that comes in handy later. If you see a link in your news feed and want to visit it later, just click on the drop down arrow on the top right of the post and then select Save. After this, whenever you want to see the saved post, click on “Saved” in the left column and you will see all the links. The links that you save are organized according to categories (links, places, music, books, movies, TV shows, and events) and you can access them by clicking on them.
But the Saved option doesn’t work for everything, and it only works for link posts.
frame
This feature of Facebook allows users to design a frame in photos and videos. The social giant has launched a new camera effects platform through which users can create new frames. And then these can be used for profile pictures and videos on Facebook from the mobile app.
The camera effects platform lets designers add frames to photos based on location and event. Earlier, a similar custom geofilter was available on Snapchat. Facebook’s new platform allows users to create frames for a specific location, event, as well as for general use. While creating frames, you have to follow these guidelines of Facebook and after that you can submit them to Facebook for review. The social media giant claims that this review will take a maximum of one week. Once the frame is approved, all users can use this frame for profile pictures and videos on Facebook.
These frames are available through the in-app camera on Facebook. They can also be accessed on the Facebook web. Also, as per Facebook’s permission, you can know the statistics of the frames you have created, how many people have used them, how many times.
Weather
This feature of Facebook is very useful. If you want to get information related to weather, then now you will get complete information about it on the mobile app and desktop site of the social media giant.
In Facebook’s new weather section, users can get information about the weather forecast for an entire week. Facebook’s weather feature works on the basis of information provided by Weather.com. The weather feature is an extension of Facebook’s old version ‘weather greetings’ and can be accessed by going to ‘More’ in the news feed.
