Facebook Looking To Clone Snapchat's Snap Map Feature

As if Facebook hasn't snapped enough of Snapchat'southward functionalities (ahem, Stories!), the social media behemothic is now looking to clone the Snap Map feature. It enables yous non simply see where your friends are only also admission Stories posted by others on a earth map.

Popular WhatsApp leakster WABetaInfo has shared screenshots of Facebook's Snap Map clone with TNW's Matt Navarra, who posted them on his Twitter earlier today. The social media giant is looking to add together a new "Earth" Stories department to show off what the users across the world are upwardly to.

These Stories, equally shown in the tweet fastened below, volition be marked with the 'World' tag and tapping on the aforementioned will probably open the world map. You'll then exist able to either view or share Stories with (nigh) everyone on Facebook, which volition be shown on elevation of the globe map. This sounds extremely reminiscent of the functionality of Snap Map.

Note : If you aren't familiar with Snap Map, information technology allows you to exercise a whole lot of things. Y'all can either watch Stories from any role of the globe, posted either by individual users or curated by Snapchat. The Snap Map also acts equally a oestrus map, showing the areas where users are posting more Stories (highlighted in ruddy).

NEW: Facebook is testing a Snapchat / Snapmap-like feature for Stories

Appears to let you select to show Stories to 'World' + view other Stories or photos on a map if shared to 'World'

(Screenshot: @WABetaInfo) moving-picture show.twitter.com/gsqjwFG9YL

— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) February 6, 2018

Facebook is looking to bring this characteristic to give its version of Stories a much-needed boost every bit it has been lagging behind the competitors. Information technology has already taken several measures, such as the ability to view all your Stories on the spider web, cross-posting Stories from Instagram, and the rumored desktop-based Story sharing feature, to gear up the lack of traffic.

But, nothing seems to have worked wonders for Facebook and it is now turning towards a much-loved (and also hated, for grave privacy concerns) feature of Snapchat to add more than appeal to Facebook Stories. We haven't received the said feature as of yet, only information technology might be coming very soon.

Snapchat showed remarkable growth, fifty-fifty more than than Facebook, in terms of daily active users in the fourth quarter and that says much about the Snapchat's unused potential.

Snap has now started rolling out a redesigned variant of its app, which has drawn a mixed bag of responses from users, but has been revamped to eventually make its platform easy to access by a lot more people. Facebook already has a huge user-base and is at present working to incite meaningful interactions, which might not be possible with a new privacy hindering feature. So, what are your views on Facebook cloning another Snapchat feature? Practice tell us in the comments below.

Source: https://beebom.com/facebook-clone-snapchat-map-feature/

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