What's New For Facebook? - See What Was Announced This Week

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At Facebook's annual conference this week, there were 4 very big announcements made by Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday about new features for Facebook.

The 4 new features were as follows:

  1. Privacy Tool.
  2. Dating Game
  3. Video Chat
  4. Oculus VR Headset.

Here is a bit about each of these new features and what they will offer you at Facebook.

Facebook's New Features

Privacy Tool

Facebook are about to roll out a new feature called Clear History. This feature is a privacy tool from Facebook which gives users more control. It works in the the same way you would use for deleting cookies plus your browsing history within a web browser.

The tool is used to remove any information about you that Facebook has gathered from any of your interactions that have occured away from the main website for Facebook. This also allows you to disable Facebook which stops them from following your actions that take place off-Facebook. It was stated by Mark Zuckerberg that "This is the kind of control that we think people should have."

At the moment, there is no actual release date for this feature. However, it will be rolled out over within the next few months.

Dating Game

Here is some exciting and interesting information from Facebook. Have you ever wanted to be able to use Facebook for dating, then you wont have to wait too much longer as there is a new feature to Facebook's mobile app that will soon be getting rolled out which is going to help users of Facebook who are single find their heart's desire.

Zuckerburg stated that "This is going to be for building real long-term relationships, not just hookups." Therefore, it will look for users to opt into the service and your friends you regularly speak to on Facebook will not be able to see what is on your profile for the dating game.

Testing for this dating feature at Facebook won't be available until later on in the year.

Video Chat

Have you ever wished to be able to video chat on Instagram or be able to have a group video chat on WhatsApp, well you won't need to wait too long to be able to do both.

In the next few weeks video chat (including group video chat) will be rolled out to Instagram from Facebook. WhatsApp will also get the ability soon to be able to do group video chats. This follows on from 2016 when it was enabled for one-to-one video chats.

Although you can still video chat on the three platforms of Facebook, you will not be able to chat to someone who is on WhatsApp while you are on Instagram or if you are on Facebook Messenger you will not be able to video chat someone on Instagram.

There are other things also coming to Messenger and Instagram like face filters (augmented reality effects).

Oculus Goes Phone And PC Free At Last

There was one hardware announcement from Facebook which was in addition to all the other news for software. It came out and announced to the Conference about the first Oculus Virtual Reality headset. This headset needs no connection to either a phone or a computer.

It is available right now at the price of $199 and all the computing power is already inside the device rather than the earlier headsets which had to be tethered to a computer or the Gear VR which was created in connection with Oculus and you needed the Samsung Galaxy S or Note phone which then provided the processing power as well as the screen.

The whole package is priced at under $200 and the gra[jphics from Go are greatly impressive but will it be enough to get people to invest in virtual reality.

What Do You Think

I have to say that I was impressed with the 4 great announcements that were made at the F8 Conference and thought that there would be some of you within WA that perhaps hadn't seen or heard any of these announcements.

Have a great Friday everybody.

Bed time for me now so I will say






quotes courtesy of Reuters

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Interesting developments. Hopefully they will also do more to be secure member information.

~Mark :)

Thank you Mark and I would think they will have to make sure that they do make things more secure. I see that Cambridge Analytica are closing down after all the carry on. xxx

An interesting post, with some good info

Thanks very much Dave and I have replied to your pm as well. xxx

Cool thanks very much

Hello Cheryl,

I think many people are going to be very careful about the information they divulge on Facebook.

Derek

You are right there Derek, people will be very wary about they put on any of the media sites now.

Thanks for your comment, it is greatly appreciated. xxx

You're welcome Cheryl.

Derek

No problem Derek. xxx

:)

Derek

Well, I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, these are some great features. On the other hand, how do I trust Zuckerburg on this, given what's happened in the past?

Optimistically skeptical (or is it "skeptically optimistic?"),

Joshua

Hi Joshua

I agree with what you are saying, the announcements were great about the new features but I think a lot of people will feel the same way as yourself on whether you are able to trust them again after what has just happened.

I think it can be whatever you want it to be Joshua. xx

Hey Cheryl
Thanks so much for keeping us in the loop with this.Much appreciated

You are very welcome and I just thought that these types of things are always interesting to someone. xx

I hadn't seen any of this. Thanks!

You are welcome Dianne, I found it under the technology part of the news on my lap top. There were lots of different other things as well that were also interesting.

Wow! These are some great new things they are rolling out!! I'm excited:). Thx for sharing, Cheryl:)
Blessings:)
Suzi

Hi Suzi, you are very welcome and there are some great new things that they are rolling out. I especially liked the idea of the dating game - only joking lol.

I did like the idea of the privacy tool though and the group video chat on WhatsApp. xxxx

Hi, Chez,

I like the thought of oculus the power of it is amazing. That has been coming up from a few years back now. As for the dating thing it is one of the biggest earners and is ever green..

The video chat etc all come under the belt of oculus. The only thing that aggravates me is the face recognition.

The apps of today can wipe away every frown and make us look stunning lol as for my face all Apped up LOL.

How do they do that they catch us one way or another.

We will never stay private. Anyways moving forward. If any one has a niche narrowed down on the dating thing get on it. That is massive.

The oculus is coming in and now we will be all walking round and banging into furniture. I do however Love Mark Zuckerberg he isn't a bad person.

Just somebody who wanted people to connect and fb in the beginning was brought on as a dating thing who was the best looking etc.

He had a vision I feel for him in a sense cause the poor man and Cambridge analytics etc are a pile of fools as well.Getting in on the band Wagon.

Face book is doing exactly what the new GDPR are doing in google. It all goes with the same flow.

Anyways I do like the oculus I shall be seeing you all in video chat befor long walking around banging into furniture,
I hope it as the app built in to iron out my frown Lol.

Great post chez. heres to us all. Get out those Oculus. They are coming.

Debs :))

Hi Debs, you are very welcome.

I personally do not need Oculus to bump into furniture and things I can do that quite well with my eyes open lol.

I think the dating game idea is a great thing and the fact that all your regular friends are not able to see what is on the profile for the dating game is quite good as well.

I think Mark Zuckerberg was just unlucky about what happened with Cambridge Analytica. I don't think for a minute that he expected that to happen when he started working with them. I noticed that they are closing down after what happened. I will say I am not surprised because who is going to use them now.

The would need a really great filter to get rid of all my frown lines and crows feet and make me look good lol.

I liked the idea of the group chat idea on WhatsApp, saves having to say the same thing over and over again to lots of people. You can just set up a group video chat and get everyone at the same time.

Have a great weekend Debs. xxx

Lol Chez
perfect answer to my comment. I think you are amazing Chez. Lol no I dont think I am banging my legs on furniture neither. I think you feel the same as I on the whole fb thing.

I haven't quite looked into the group chat on WhatsApp as of yet. Such a great post you wrote all the same.

Heres to you Chez, and have a great week. I have just seen the reply to my comment. catching up with the new UX lol and the multitasking.

Brilliant Chez
Debs :))

Lol, can you imagine a group chat on WhatsApp, we would need to put our hands up to speak with some people lol. Could be rather interesting though lol.

Thanks and you have a great rest of the week Debs lol. xxx

Lol Yeah Chez. I can imagine lol. Hahaha x Have a fab time in Tenerife you lucky girl :))

Thank you Debs and I most certainly will do.

So looking forward to this holiday. xxx

Cheryl,
Have a fabulous time hunni you deserve it. Wish I was going too lol. xx

Wonderful post, thank you.

You are very welcome Robert thank you and glad you liked the post. xxx

I am excited for the dating game now maybe all the guys will go there instead of constantly bugging us

Now that sounds like a good idea Melissa and then we can go and constantly bug them, how does that sound lol.

You never know though, there maybe someone there that you like the look of lol.

The dating game idea sounded good to me too - only joking lol.

It really does. However I am with someone and what is even worse is if I tell these people I am dating someone some of them even go to ask but are you married? I just start hitting block.

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