Categories: Social Media

From timeline to inbox – Facebook now lets you ‘Send’ images

Remember Facebook’s Send button? It was the company’s follow up to their widely successful Like button. They launched it almost two years ago this week and pretty much nobody has used it since.

It was designed to let you share a page directly with specific Friends using Facebook’s proto (or should that be pseudo) email service, Facebook Messages. Even though it wasn’t used that much by the public, Facebook seems to have a fondness for it.

Back at the time Facebook described the Send button as the next step for the Like button, “A year ago,” they said, “we launched the Like button, which gives you a quick way to share the things you find on the web with all your friends. But there are times when you find something that you only want to share with a few specific people.”

It appears that in all the recent redesigns that Palo Alto has been pushing through they’ve resurrected the Send button in a limited format.

Facebook image send

With the new Facebook Timeline design users can now send photographs that they or others have shared directly to friends’ Facebook Messages inboxes.  But, why the change and why only on images?

The reason for adding the Send button to users’ images, and not to any other posts is simple. We interact with photographs and images more on Facebook than we do with plain text posts.  We’re more likely to comment, share, like, and (Facebook is hoping) to send.

Facebook is trying hard to encourage us to actually use Facebook’s complete Messaging service. It was launched back in November 2011 as a “modern messaging system,” which ( with usual hyperbole) the company described as “the way that the future should work.”

And since then no one has really bothered with it. Even after changing users’ default email addresses to Facebook ones, still no one used it. The question is, will people start using it now?

Ajit Jain

Ajit Jain is marketing and sales head at Octal Info Solution, a leading iPhone app development company and offering platform to hire Android app developers for your own app development project. He is available to connect on Google Plus, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

View Comments

  • Cortana is not enable in the windows 10, generally as a default it is not enable and user need to enable it for use.

Recent Posts

OpenAI submitted models to the hardest math test yet for AI

OpenAI published its proof attempts on February 14 for First Proof, a challenge put together…

16 hours ago

The hidden costs of sedentary work: Why prevention starts at your desk

We all know that a sedentary lifestyle is harmful to our health. But recent studies…

17 hours ago

Solving the headache of migrating cloud-based mailboxes for the enterprise

As organizations increasingly operate across hybrid and cloud-based email systems, migrating enterprise mailboxes has become…

18 hours ago

Digital ID, programmable money pave way for ‘dystopian hellhole, horrific totalitarian regimes’: ESN at European Parliament

Digital ID, programmable money like Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), and AI are paving the…

2 days ago

Elon Musk says tariffs make solar artificially expensive in the U.S. But there is much more at play: Op-ed

Earlier this year, Elon Musk was direct about what comes next for the global economy:…

3 days ago

Britive Unified PAM Integrates with New Extended Plan for AWS Security Hub

Britive, provider of a unified privileged access management (PAM) platform, today announced its unified PAM…

4 days ago