Facebook users will have one more thing to cheer about soon and would be able to use a new feature. Facebook’s status update box is getting a new feature called Lists, which begins rolling out today for some subset of users. This would be the first major update to the entry field since the launch of “coloured bacgrounds” feature which was added just over a year ago by Facebook, which lets users select a color that appears behind their text status in place of the normally-white background and also serves as a way to encourage Facebook users to share more personal content.
The new “Lists” feature, lets users make lists of anything they choose – New Year’s Resolutions, To Do’s, restaurants to try, travel ideas, and more. Users can create their own lists with colored backgrounds, and decorate them with emoji.
The lists are also designed with the idea that friends could copy each other’s lists to share their own opinions about the subject at hand.
This Facebook feature is not yet broadly available, as it’s a slow global roll out starting today.
The addition appears as a part of the “What’s on your mind?” (status update) box as another option alongside things like Polls, Feeling/Activity, Photo/Video, Check In, GIF, and other items.
The goal with features like these is to push users to post more personal updates – like stories about their lives, what they’re up to, and what they’re thinking. These types of posts were once Facebook’s bread-and-butter, and enticed friends to log back in to see what others were saying. But over the years, Facebook’s News Feed has filled with videos, links, news, memes, updates from Facebook Pages, and, of course, ads.
Facebook today is trying to solve the problem of too much non-personal content in its News Feed. As people have been posting less personal content over the years.
In our February 11th article we informed our readers about Facebook including a ‘downvote” button to create a lightweight way for people to provide a signal to Facebook that a comment is inappropriate, uncivil, or misleading.
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— TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) February 14, 2018
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