Facebook Testing Tagging Suggestions on Videos, Share to Messenger Button in Comments

On its introspective journey to brand the platform more than meaningful for users, Facebook is constantly testing a bunch of new features in its Android app. While we yesterday reported that the social media behemothic is putting an expiry date on pending friend requests, it is now looking to incite conversation between existing friends/ followers.

When you completely lookout man a video or motility on to comment on a post in your news feed, and then Facebook volition now bear witness y'all @mention tag suggestions to share the post with your most frequent contacts. The social media giant shows y'all the 5 user suggestions, based on your interactions with them, followed by a search button to tag other users. You tin can only tap on any username to mention them and share the content immediately.

Note: I've tested all of these features on Facebook beta version 165.0.0.20.93 on my Xiaomi Redmi Note iii, running Android 8.1 Oreo.

In addition to the mention suggestions, Facebook also appears to exist testing a feature that'll enable you to share comments privately on Messenger. Yes, you lot read that right, comments and not the complete mail service.

Now, whenever you tag a friend in a annotate on a post or video in your news feed, you volition notice that a new 'Transport in Messenger' characterization appears right above the mention. You'll then see ii options next to the characterization, asking yous to plow the feature on and off, so you can easily control when you want to share your annotate publicly or privately.

This is possibly an endeavor on Facebook'southward part to increase engagement on Messenger, who can now share interesting and fun posts with each other privately.

Another interesting tidbit about this sharing feature is that Facebook will create a new Messenger group chat and share the post if y'all mention more one friend in the comment. You'll be able to go along to use the same grouping from at that place on out to share future comments. This is a really handy characteristic if yous'd like to discuss something new and interesting you lot see in your feed.

There is currently no guarantee that Facebook will release either of these two features to all users worldwide, merely they'll be a neat add-on to make the platform more interactive. Do you think the same? Tell us in the comments below.

Source: https://beebom.com/facebook-mention-suggestions-sharing-to-messenger/

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