Facebook launches Choose Expiration, the post time: the message “you … – The Daily

What’s new in home Facebook : The team of Mark Zuckerberg is experimenting with “ Choose Expiration ” the possibility of choose the length of a post on its bulletin board. L ‘ self-destruct messages and publications on his personal page is available to users who have chosen applications like Snapchat , forerunner of the instant messaging service that allows you to Send photos to friends only for a certain number of seconds and then the visibility is canceled.

Snapchat currently has 100 million users monthly and in November 2013 Facebook attempted acquisition by placing the pot over 3 billion dollars. As a result, the company launched its own app similar, Slingshot , which however has not yet achieved the popularity of the rival.

We know that the app follow the interests of those who use them, and the company is attentive to the wishes of the members in the largest online directory experimentation, is now restricted to a small number of users who access Facebook via the app for iOS iPhone and iPad . From a drop-down menu you can choose how long a post is published on the bulletin board, the options range from a minimum of one hour to a maximum of one week. Protect their Privacy is a growing priority among users who use the network. On Facebook you can choose that your information not be disclosed to friends or they are not visible to anyone looking at our profile, but to defend against potential hackers or keep confidential the private aspects of his life seems to be an increasingly acclaimed by sailors, especially those who frequent the social network.

Some say that the move to Facebook is a window dressing to counter the decline in enrollment and to comply with the trend of Snapchat, Wind Up and Telegram just to mention a few apps that provide for the self-destruct messages. In recent years the social Zuckerberg has increased the average age of users already dubbed “mature digital” (five years ago, over 55 were not even 3% today are almost a tenth of the total) and the “digital natives”, By contrast, they find more platforms confidential. Here the operation on a trial basis “Choose Expiration” could be made in the alternative for Facebook not to lag behind the need for privacy and oblivion request from the web.

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