I sometimes long for Facebook's early days. We had a wall where people could only write messages (no pictures, videos, links, and no replies, either), a profile picture (but no other photos), some basic information about yourself, the ability to send and receive private messages among your friends, and of course, the "poke" button! There may be a few features I am forgetting, but those were the major ones.
However, Facebook has continually added new features and modified old ones. Yesterday, Facebook's news page announced a new feature that will be coming in the next few days, called "Save on Facebook".
According to their post, Save on Facebook will allow you to save "items like links, places, movies, TV, and music." Unless you also share them, only you will be able to see the items you have saves. Save on Facebook will allow you to view your saved items on any device that can access Facebook, meaning you can save an item on your computer and later view it on your phone.
It will also add reminders about your saved items into your News Feed. No information is provided regarding your ability to control these reminders.
While I will hold final judgment on this feature until it is publicly released, I think this will prove to be a useful feature. I have seen many people say to share something you won't need right away (like a recipe) so that it will be on your profile for you to view later. However, the problem is that unless you remember when you shared it, you will have to scroll through all your posts to find what you shared. Now, you have a way to store and organize all those items for quick retrieval.
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