Facebook has recently revamped it’s Related Discussions feature, allowing users to easily access it via an animated prompt and displaying more groups and individual conversations as well.
Facebook is rather aptly named the social network for a reason. It's an online space that users have been congregating over for years, establishing not only virtual mirrors of the real life relationships that they have, but also grouping together with other individuals and bonding over common interests. It's an interesting microcosm of social interaction in the digital age, as discourse on the platform constantly evolves with the ever-changing generational language.
Then again, discourse isn’t always positive and heavily divided opinions are only becoming further and further common, what with the high tension climate currently brought on by topics of race, police brutality, religious tolerance, immigration, the list goes on. Many would find it useful to gain an informed opinion over a topic by gauging the public reaction to it across the board before reaching an informed opinion. A feature such as Related Discussions actively facilitates such actions for Facebook’s more curious users.
Discussions entails discourse around shared posts. Essentially, a prompt would ask users whether or not they’d like to see other groups where the encountered post has been shared, allowing users to highlight and identify common interest groups, or differing opinions over the same topic. It’s an interesting edge Facebook's added to its habitual slog of reacting to, sharing, and commenting on posts. While the original update was limited to simply identifying groups in which a post was shared, the new update adds more facets to the feature as a whole.
Users can now open the Discussions interface via a new blue and purple animated icon on the upper right hand corner of the comment section underneath the relevant post. Clicking on it will now not only display groups under which posts have been shared, but also show individual public posts made by users discussing the content matter. This will allow users to really engage with other users over common ground, or properly assess public perception towards certain topics as opposed ton scrolling through the relevant groups to find a linking thread.
How this will affect discussions on the platform has yet to be properly examined. Again, while this could lead to more touching interactions between users sharing common interests and perceptions, due to the socio-political turmoil inherent to our current times, this feature might just result in some nasty online altercations, further adding fuel to a match that's already burning crimson.
H/T: SMT.
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Facebook is rather aptly named the social network for a reason. It's an online space that users have been congregating over for years, establishing not only virtual mirrors of the real life relationships that they have, but also grouping together with other individuals and bonding over common interests. It's an interesting microcosm of social interaction in the digital age, as discourse on the platform constantly evolves with the ever-changing generational language.
Then again, discourse isn’t always positive and heavily divided opinions are only becoming further and further common, what with the high tension climate currently brought on by topics of race, police brutality, religious tolerance, immigration, the list goes on. Many would find it useful to gain an informed opinion over a topic by gauging the public reaction to it across the board before reaching an informed opinion. A feature such as Related Discussions actively facilitates such actions for Facebook’s more curious users.
Discussions entails discourse around shared posts. Essentially, a prompt would ask users whether or not they’d like to see other groups where the encountered post has been shared, allowing users to highlight and identify common interest groups, or differing opinions over the same topic. It’s an interesting edge Facebook's added to its habitual slog of reacting to, sharing, and commenting on posts. While the original update was limited to simply identifying groups in which a post was shared, the new update adds more facets to the feature as a whole.
Users can now open the Discussions interface via a new blue and purple animated icon on the upper right hand corner of the comment section underneath the relevant post. Clicking on it will now not only display groups under which posts have been shared, but also show individual public posts made by users discussing the content matter. This will allow users to really engage with other users over common ground, or properly assess public perception towards certain topics as opposed ton scrolling through the relevant groups to find a linking thread.
How this will affect discussions on the platform has yet to be properly examined. Again, while this could lead to more touching interactions between users sharing common interests and perceptions, due to the socio-political turmoil inherent to our current times, this feature might just result in some nasty online altercations, further adding fuel to a match that's already burning crimson.
H/T: SMT.
Read next: This summer Facebook Is Planning To Introduce A Clubhouse Competitor With New and Better Audio Tools
