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After Instagram, Facebook will now begin testing a ‘story highlights’ feature

Facebook is soon going to begin testing ‘Story Highlights’. The platform confirmed the same to Techcrunch saying “People have told us they want a way to highlight and save the Stories that matter most to them. We’ll soon start testing highlights on Facebook – a way to choose Stories to stay on your profile, making it easier to express who you are through memories.” The feature is similar to Instagram Story Highlights where users can make their stories last for more than 24 hours by adding them as highlights. The highlights can be grouped into collections with individual titles and names. Users can also revive expired stories which are saved to the archives as their highlights. These highlights will appear on a horizontal bar on the user’s profile and can be viewed by their friends by default, though the user can restrict or expand the audience as per their wish. Facebook introduced stories back in March 2017 which let people ‘Show Friends What You’re Up To ‘ Users needed to press the camera icon on the top left corner or swipe right on their newsfeeds in the Facebook app to access the in-app camera. The camera provided various themes, frames and interactive filters and also let you upload visuals/videos from your gallery. Facebook added an additional feature where users who also use Instagram can share their stories from Instagram directly on their Facebook stories. Users could view the stories on the application and on their browsers as well. Snapchat vs.…

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