This feature will save your time

Hyderabad: As part of the evolving innovations that Facebook is increasingly being associated with, the social networking giant added a new feature earlier this week that lets users save things they are interested in, but may not have time to check out, for a later date.

Simply called ‘Save’, the new feature lets you flag things like places, links, music and more, to later come back to them when you have more time. These ‘saved’ items are personal, meaning they won’t appear to your friends unless you choose to share them.

The process to save an item is simple — click the drop down menu on the upper right-hand corner of a post that appears on the News Feed. If a user happens to be looking at a place or music page, a new ‘Save’ tab will appear just under that Page’s profile photo. Users can then re-visit their saved items using the ‘More’ tab on mobile, or by hitting the ‘Saved’ link on the left-hand side of the desktop version.

Given that Facebook is fast becoming the go-to place for consuming news with its addition of trending topics and Facebook Paper, the new feature adds a much-needed element to the social website, among other changes.

Before the Save feature, re-visiting a post that caught your interest in the News Feed was a troublesome task, if not almost impossible since Facebook’s algorithm doesn’t let items surface chronologically. Of course, Facebook users can revisit posts they like, but the process isn’t an easy one — it involves going into your Activity Log and then sifting through your past likes (a task made tougher for ‘serial likers’).

Items you save will resurface, though, as Facebook will add reminders in your News Feed to check out the links and places you’ve flagged. Save will be available to all iOS and Android users, as well as web users, over the ‘next few days’, according to Facebook’s blog post.