The user base of Facebook has already touched a billion in the recent past and the social networking giant is having a valuation of $240 billion but this stupendous growth story is not all that important compared to the great futuristic projects the company has for the users. Yes, over the years Facebook developed itself as a brand that is more intent on adding or creating value for the users and taking leads with an array of user friendly features. Here we explain top 5 upcoming projects of Facebook.
UAVs for providing network in remote areas
This is viewed as one of the top future projects of Facebook. For quite some time Facebook is planning to provide internet network in remote areas for its users with the help of UAVs. Recent speculation about Facebook’s buying of solar powered drones only confirms that. For sometime under the banner of Facebook.org the company is trying to bring internet connection for everybody around the world. Though it is still not clear how various nations would take these drones from the point of view of security, the move is supposed to leverage far greater access for the brand.
Flipboard like mobile news reader
Facebook is launching soon its own news reader service that shares the news contents shared by the users. This new Flipboard like news reader feature is developed with a view of making its mobile app more popular. The shared news published on a mobile friendly visual design format can help the readers to track potential news of their interests. As per latest reports, the project has found particular favor from Mark Zuckerberg and the design is planned keeping high end mobile devices in mind.
New version for office use
Work based social network sites like LinkedIn for some time giving Facebook a bit of competition, especially among professional people. To address this finally Facebook is going to launch a new version of its site keeping the demands of work based social network in mind. According to reports, this new website of Facebook dubbed as ‘Facebook at Work’ will offer an array of workplace features like chatting with colleagues, connecting professional contacts and collaborating with official documents. Even though the version has been rolled out for official use it will also allow users to keep their personal profiles. Expectedly enough, the move will create new viability of Facebook for the professionals and office users. This is one of those future projects of Facebook which is capable of enhancing its reach even inside the so called forbidden territory right now.
Self destruct timer for deleting photos
This is one of the most exciting future projects of Facebook. Reportedly, Facebook is going to launch a new feature for automatic deleting of posts and photos. Dubbed as ‘self destruct timer’ the feature would help users to delete a photo or post automatically at the preferred time from their Facebook page. With this feature you can schedule deletion of a photo or post in your Facebook profile. A small amount of users already received this feature as part of test run drive.
New App ‘Moments’ for great private sharing
How many times you have experienced that the privacy settings for sharing your Facebook content with a few selected ones failed? Yes, keeping that thing and the corresponding demand for privacy in mind Facebook is all set to launch a standalone app for private sharing. Named as ‘Moments’ this app would allow users to share their photos, media and contents within a selected group of few members. The app presently going under tests for bugs is expected to be launched anytime soon.
Facebook as the largest social networking brand with greatest reach is always committed to add more value to the user experience and these new future projects of Facebook are only a testimony to that.
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