The Facebook profile photo will become a (short) video – BBC

Social networks are a construction site constantly open. The reason is obvious: you are healthy, such as Facebook with its (almost) 1.5 billion subscribers, or eternal convalescence, like Twitter who would even think of giving up the distinctive 140 characters, live in constant risk be replaced by a platform younger and equally quick to gain momentum. Menlo Park, part of the rampant competitors like WhatsApp and Instagram if you bought them, has been working for months to make profiles more and more attractive, especially in mobility, and to recover their visibility swallowed up by the flow of news.

Today he told the blog to be about to give us the possibility to use a short video (7/2 at most) as a profile photo. Instead dell’immaginetta static with which we identify friends and contacts, then, will rotate a series of phrases or shots at our choice (watch the video). The video will start only when someone will visit our page, so as not to turn the news feed in a crazy animated roundup. Even to start any audio need to go through the fingertip on the frame.

It is not the only change: to demonstrate our adherence to a cause or our presence in a given context at a specific period time we can set a photo ready to be replaced at the end of the period in question from what we were already using. For example: during the football weekend we will be able to propose with scarf and hat for fans then put the clothes normal on Monday morning. Facebook has become convinced of the usefulness of this feature after seeing 26 million people apply the filter to the rainbow profile photo to celebrate the approval of gay marriages by the US Supreme Court. In the following days only the most attentive to their (social) have replaced the image back to the original photo. The others were “colored” for weeks.

All the portion dedicated to our presentation will be on the move, to be sure, retouched: space for bigger photo, an area for the biography and the possibility a hierarchy of information (date of birth, studies, profession, etc.) and the images that are considered most relevant, providing further valuable data about their preferences. The first to test innovations are the British and Californians.