{"id":2183,"date":"2016-12-13T01:09:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T01:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/facebook-rolls-out-a-lightweight-web-version-of-its-photo-sharing-service-moments.html"},"modified":"2016-12-13T01:09:17","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T01:09:17","slug":"facebook-rolls-out-a-lightweight-web-version-of-its-photo-sharing-service-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/facebook-rolls-out-a-lightweight-web-version-of-its-photo-sharing-service-moments.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook rolls out a lightweight web version of its photo-sharing service, Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"


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When Facebook originally launched its photo-sharing service Moments<\/a>, the idea was to offer friends and family a better way to send each other\u00a0photos without having to post them more publicly on the social network itself. The mobile app has since become a moderate success, ranking No. 171 overall on the iTunes App Store and No. 131 overall on Google Play. Now, Facebook is making Moments a more prominent part of its desktop web experience, as well.<\/p>\n

The company had already rolled out limited web support for Moments earlier this fall<\/a>, when it introduced a way to send a Moments link to a friend. When clicked, this link would take them to the\u00a0private online album you wanted to share. The\u00a0additional feature made it possible to share photos with people\u00a0you weren\u2019t already connected with on Facebook, and allowed them to join the album to add their own photos.<\/p>\n

The launch had followed a similar move from Google Photos, which had improved its own shared albums feature to allow users to add their own photos to albums when they received a link. At the time, Facebook Moments was limited to sharing among Facebook friends, so the new feature was something of a catch-up attempt.<\/p>\n

Now, Facebook is making it easier for Moments users to view photos when they\u2019re not on their phones.<\/p>\n

The company says this lightweight version of Moments\u00a0for the web was being tested earlier, but is now available to everyone.<\/p>\n

\"screen-shot-2016-12-09-at-1-35-14-pm\"The web version of Moments is available from\u00a0the left-side navigation on the social network, and\u00a0takes you to a collection of the private photo albums on the photo-sharing service.<\/p>\n

This online version of Moments is a much more lightweight experience that what\u2019s available via the mobile app \u2014 basically, you can only view the shared photos here, but not much else. If you want to add your own photos to an album, leave likes or comments or create slideshows, you\u2019ll need to download the mobile app to your iOS or Android device.<\/p>\n

The album homepage heavily promotes the app, too, with a big blue button that will direct you to the app\u2019s download page.<\/p>\n

Bringing Moments to the web makes sense because of how deeply tied Moments is with Facebook itself. When you share photos with someone in Moments, they\u2019re alerted via Facebook\u2019s notifications and in Messenger.<\/p>\n

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Additionally, because Facebook retired its mobile photo-syncing feature<\/a> in favor of Moments, it\u2019s helpful to have a way to gain access your mobile photo uploads when you\u2019re using Facebook on the web, too.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s clear that Facebook wants Moments\u2019 web version to be a simple way to promote the accompanying\u00a0mobile app without conflicting with Facebook\u2019s own photo album sharing feature. However, as a web app, Moments isn\u2019t very useful today \u2014 which is frustrating, given its potential to become a private social network of sorts that lives within Facebook itself.<\/p>\n

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