Facebook comes up with new feature named “subscribe”
The war of social media network is rising to new heights every day. The users of the social media network have been finding new amendments every day which is making their social media network better than the competitors. The competition is increasing day by day as new networks are getting introduced on the web and trying to capture the market with its unique features. But till date only three major networks succeeded in getting good market share in the war of social media network. Twitter, Facebook and the newly introduced Google+ from Google search engine. Looking at the rising competition, the social media networks are trying to make their network better than the other so that the users or the followers of the network remain loyal to them and new users get attracted towards the network.
Facebook is currently adding new features to its interface in order to stay ahead in the competition from Google+ and Twitter.
Facebook is frequently adding new features to its interface, looking at the competition it is getting from Twitter and Google+. The new features that are getting added to Facebook, make it very much unique than its competitors. The addition of new social games, new applications and new features on Facebook is an attempt to look different from other social sites. Currently a new button named “subscribe” has been added on to Facebook, which allows users to follow the person without adding them to their friend’s list as well as being able to subscribe to their own friends feed.
According to the recent blog post of Facebook, it has been stated that,” The subscribe button is going to make it easier for the user to follow the actions that are taken by their friends as well as to follow the people who you personally do not know like journalists, artists as well as public figures. The subscribe button will soon appear on every Facebook user profile which will allow you to follow them. “
The use of the subscribe button will help you in following ways:
- Choose what you can see from Facebook users in the News Feed
- If any Facebook user is not your friend, you will still be able to hear from him
- Facebook users will be able to hear from you even if you are not present on their friend’s list
The basic idea of the subscribe button is similar to that of done on Twitter. On Twitter you are allowed to follow any other Twitter user which helps to get the news feed that are posted by the user. The subscribe feature on the Facebook is having the juice of Twitter and made the improved friends list. The subscribe feature is also similar to the Google Plus circles that allows friends, colleagues at work to connect with you in a smarter way.
The subscription feature is considered to be an important experiment by Facebook in the social circles. This feature will help to get more popularity over the social media network war. According to the New York Times, the move taken by Facebook by introducing subscribe button is a very good response given to the competition of social media network sites.
