The status feature helped Facebook to know more about its users about what they’re doing at the moment and what they like the most. But after a certain period of time users started moving away from the feature and they instead opted for other things like sharing memes and posts.
Facebook wanted to end this trend by adding colorful backgrounds to regular, text-based status updates in an effort to make them stand out amongst the much more attention-grabbing images filling up users’ feeds.
Now, the social networking giant Facebook has debuted a new feature called “Did You Know,” and it’s hoping the tweak will get users to share more about themselves again.
The feature is set up like a dating profile questionnaire, where users answer simple, silly questions about themselves. Their answers are then shared directly with their feed.
For instance…
The superpower I would like to have…
The first thing I’d do after winning a lottery is…
A guilty pleasure that I’m willing to admit to is…
Mondays make me feel like…
Once a user answers the questions, they go live as a colorful status update.
It’s evident that Facebook is trying to get its users to share more personal information on their platform again, as that makes it far easier to entice advertisers to market their products to laser-focused user groups. But the broader implication of this new feature is that Facebook’s business model needs to evolve to cater to the changing trends of how people use the platform.
If you wonder where did Facebook get this idea from or if you think this reminds you something else then you’re right. This formula is very much reminiscent of the app tbh (to be honest) which Facebook acquired in October of this year. However, tbh’s success was built on answering questions about your friends; Facebook has flipped the formula and brought it back to the user.
What do you think of this new addition from Facebook??? Do you think it’s digging your privacy from you or this is just a cool new feature to have. Let us know down below!
