#facebook adds new camera features in hopes that you’ll use Stories
August 15, 2017 | Uncategorized

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Facebook is rolling out a few camera features it began testing earlier this summer, and the most exciting one is the ability to create GIFs.
Now, if you swipe over to the camera inside of Facebook’s main app, you’ll have the ability to record two-second GIFs and post them to the News Feed, your story, or in a message to a friend. It’s a nice addition for Facebook, which resisted GIFs for the longest time before finally adding a way to embed them in 2015. You can see our impressions from when the feature was in testing last month.
In addition to making GIFs, Facebook now lets you start a live stream straight from the camera screen. Facebook is also bringing its colorful text posts to the camera, even…