Facebook, back in September, was spotted testing a new feature called ‘Snooze’. Now, the social media giant has made the feature official by detailing it on their newsroom website. The feature aims to give users better control over their newsfeed and notifications alerts.
NEW DELHI: Facebook, back in September, was spotted testing a new feature called ‘Snooze’. Now, the social media giant has made the feature official by detailing it on their newsroom website. The feature aims to give users better control over their newsfeed and notifications alerts.
Shruthi Muraleedharan, product manager at Facebook said in the post that the ‘Snooze’ feature will be arriving over the next week. The feature lets users to temporarily unfollow a person, page or a group for 30 days. For now, the option only includes muting the content for 30 days.
We assume Facebook may bring more time options in future. According to TechCrunch’s report from September, the option that was being tested came with 24 hours and 7 days as additional snooze time options. These may go live in future.
“With Snooze, you don’t have to unfollow or unfriend permanently, rather just stop seeing someone’s posts for a short period of time. The people, Pages, and groups you snooze will not be notified. You will be notified before the Snooze period is about to end and the setting can also be reversed at any time,” explains Muraleedharan.
You can make use of this Snooze feature in two simple steps.
Step 1:
If you want to mute a post, click on the top-right drop-down menu of that post.
Step 2:
In the drop-down menu, simply select ‘Snooze (name of the page, person for group) for 30 days’ options. That’s it.
Talking about Facebook testing different features, recently it was spotted testing ‘Greetings’, which is based on a similar decade-old idea of ‘Poke’. Spotted by The Next Web’s social media director Matt Navarra, Greetings are just like Poke. It consists of four new options in addition to ‘Poke’. These are Wave, Hug, Wink and High-Five. These icons are spotted right below the profile picture of the user.
For the latest news, tech news, breaking news headlines and live updates checkout Gadgetsnow.com
See Also
OnePlus 5T (Midnight Black 6GB RAM + 64GB memory) ₹ 32999
BUY NOW
OnePlus 5T (Midnight Black 8GB RAM + 128GB memory) ₹ 37999
BUY NOW
OnePlus 5 (Slate Gray 8GB RAM + 128GB memory) ₹ 37999
BUY NOW
