How to maximize your Facebook mobile app experience

The Facebook mobile app is a popular way to access the social networking giant. Facebook keeps trying to incorporate popular features from other sites, to make Facebook an amalgamation of experiences from all over the web. You can maximize your Facebook experience by staying up to date with the new additions. For more info, visit here.

The new “save” feature on Facebook:

The latest new feature introduced by Facebook is the “save” feature, which can be accessed by tapping the little arrow in the right corner of the news feed post. If someone shares a link to an article but you want to read it later, you can save it via the save feature and access it later by tapping the “saved” tab in the left menu.

The saved tab opens the saved links page, where you can further organize your links by archiving them, arranging them into categories or deleting them once you are done reading them. You can save not just links but places, music, books, films, TV shows, and events.

Advantages of this feature:

1.       You can make a reading list for yourself to read on a rainy day with a cup of your favorite beverage (or in any other situation in which you like to sit down and read; that was just my suggestion). We frequently overlook many stories on the news feed simply because we do not have the time to check them out. With the save feature you will no longer miss stories from your favorite blogs, news agencies and Facebook personalities because they will all be safely stored away in the saved tab.

2.       Once something you post on Facebook appears in the news feed, you can save it. It is difficult to find wall posts that have been pushed down the timeline by newer posts, but this way you can keep track of your favorite posts without the risk of losing them among the many posts filling up your timeline.

Disadvantage of this feature:

If you post something which is of the nature that you wish you had not posted it but for some reason you are not willing to remove it from Facebook, chances are that someone in your friends list might have saved it all the same. So be careful what you post on Facebook, which is a precaution that must be taken in all circumstances, anyway.

Commentary on this feature

It seems that Facebook does not want to be left behind by link saving sites such as Delicious. While saving links on Facebook is private (when you save a link, the action is not shown on the news feed to your Facebook friends), it remains a Facebook-oriented feature as it only allows you to save Facebook content to view later. Whereas on Delicious, you can save a link from anywhere on the web to your Delicious account. I suppose you can post the link you want to Facebook yourself and then save it, but that is more of a roundabout and lengthy way to do things. The Facebook save feature, while being very useful, cannot replace other link saving services available online.

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