Facebook Embraces Anonymity With The Launch Of New ‘Rooms’ iOS App Facebook has announced the launch of new iOS app that encourages users to interact anonymously in a way that’s reminiscent of late 90’s – early 2000’s chat rooms. The company concedes that’s where the inspiration for the app came from, stating in the announcement that ‘Rooms’ was “inspired by both the ethos of these early web communities and the capabilities of modern smartphones.” Rooms works by allowing users to create their own identities, with no link to any social media profile, and create a message board (Room) focused on a specific topic. Other users can then join and contribute to the message board by sharing text, photos, videos, or gifs. Rooms can be visually customized in a similar way to how Reddit’s sub-reddits are customized. You can change text and icons on like buttons, add your own cover photo, change layout colours, create stickied posts, customize admin permissions, and even configure whether or not people can link to your room on the web.
Posted on: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 08:54:46 +0000
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