Facebook has launched an update to help users know in real-time when their friend types comments on their posts.
Facebook is known for experimenting with different tools from time to time but does not necessarily tell that those tools would be actually offered. People are often told that the organization is testing some new updates. Some users have noted lately that a new update is introduced, which informs users when one of their friends is commenting on one of their posts.
It does not look like much but it can possibly alter the means used by users to interact with the content posted by people on the platforms. This is not actually a new update since instant messaging applications have sent notification to users when the user on the other end is sending in a message like always, but it is interesting to currently find an analogous feature. One cannot say that whether the feature would be launched for more than 1 billion users or not.
As per reports of Facebook news, it continued despite consideration that whether this tool would increase engagement on posted content or would deter users from really writing comments regarding posts, since the other user could view commenting in real-time. Social media responses to this new feature test has been fascinating to state the least, some have stated that this is actually a creepy update that must not be launched, others hold the belief that posts would improve to a great extent once this feature is live.
Facebook Breaking news reported that the social platform has confirmed the feature testing to ‘The Next Web’ and explained by stating, "News Feed is a place to stay up to date with your friends and family. We've heard from people that they want their experience on Facebook to reflect the real-time conversations they have. So we are testing adding a line above the comment box of a post that indicates when a friend is typing. This is to help people have real-time conversations with friends and family.”
It is too early to answer the question that whether the new beta addition would probably alter their behavior. It is worthy for users that the company has brought an anonymous notification rather than instantly mentioning a friend’s name. This would prove to be a significant turn off for a large number of users as one could hope that everybody would not be glad if a significant number of users – depending upon one’s friend count – could possibly view his or her activity on the platform.
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