Facebook set to revamp your profile on mobile

Facebook’s introducing a whole slew of new features to your mobile profile with an upcoming update. Your new mobile profile page is said to “better present information about you and our friends in a more visually engaging way.” One of the biggest differences is your profile photo will be front and center. And it doesn’t have to just be a photo anymore. You’ll soon be able to have small looping clips as your “profile photo” or if you just want an occasion-specific profile photo, you can have temporary profile photos as well that’ll only be available for a set length of time. You’ll also be able to highlight up to five Featured photos at the top of the profile page.

On the privacy side, you will soon be able to control what information about you people will be able to see. You can even reorder the information in the About fields.

Source: Engadget

Facebook brings 360-degree videos to your News Feed

If you want to experiment with 360-degree videos or want to see what creators are doing with this tool, Facebook is bringing the experience to your News Feed. When you’re using the web version of the social network, you can drag the video around with your mouse. And when you’re on your Android device, you just need to drag with your finger or just turn your device. If you move your device around, the 360-degree video will follow you as you turn. Some of the exclusive videos demonstrating this new feature come from the likes of Star Wars, GoPro, and LeBron James & Uninterrupted. The feature isn’t available on iOS yet but will be arriving in the coming months.

Source: Facebook

Facebook close to introducing dislike button

You’ve asked for it and now it’s almost here. Facebook is finally brining the “dislike” button to its social network. Mark Zuckerberg said the feature is close to shipping a test version of it. According to him, the thumbs down button won’t work the same way as Reddit’s down vote button. “That doesn’t seem like the kind of community that we want to create,” Zuckerberg said about Reddit. “You don’t want to go through the process of sharing some moment that was important to you in your day and have someone ‘downvote’ it.”

It took them a while to bring this feature because it was supposedly a “surprisingly complicated” feat for his engineers. He didn’t specify a definite release but the feature should be coming to the testers soon.

Source: Cult of Mac

Facebook gives you more control over your News Feed

Facebook’s latest update is giving you more control over who and what you see on your News Feed. The social network is expanding the customization features to let you select who you’d want to see first on your News Feed. It’ll let you reconnect with people you’ve unfollow, although we’re not sure why you’d want to do that. And you can discover new pages to follow, too. You can find this settings under the “More” option near the settings menu. The update is available for both iOS and Android.

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