Facebook Launch Combined ‘Memories’ Feature
In an official post dated Monday 11th June, Facebook announced that they will be taking
existing features including ‘On This Day’ and ‘Friendversaries’ and combining
them in a brand new page called ‘Memories’. Features such as ‘On This Day’ have
long proven popular with Facebook’s users, with the company claiming that more
than 90 million people make use of the feature each day; with that in mind
collating these many interconnected facets within a single easy to find place
simply makes sense.
The new ‘Memories’ page will include the following
subsections:
- On This Day: The content that you know and love will still be available within this section, showing your past posts and major life events from this date.
- Friends Made On This Day: This section will include a list of friends you made on this date in the past, including special videos or collages that celebrate your friendversaries.
- Recaps of Memories: This section will feature seasonal or monthly recaps of memories that have been bundled into a message or short video.
- Memories You May Have Missed: If you haven’t checked your memories lately, this section will show you the posts that you might have missed from the past week.
While Facebook are of course focusing on the positive here,
they do recognise that not all memories are positive. While the passing of a
relative for example is often posted to Facebook if only to notify friends and
family of funeral arrangements and does often garner a lot of attention and
reactions, thereby making the post attractive to Facebook’s algorithms, you’re
unlikely to want reminding of this solemn yet sorrowful occasion. In an effort
to prevent such posts from appearing within what is supposed to be an uplifting
subsection of the platform, Facebook say they will “try to listen to feedback
and design these features so that they’re thoughtful and offer people the right
controls that are easy to access”. How successful that will prove to be remains
to be seen.
As for how to access the ‘Memories’ page, this can be found
in place of ‘On This Day’ through the Memories bookmark either to the left of
your News Feed on your computer or in the “more” tab on the bottom right of
your mobile app.
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