Facebook profiles are about to get a lot more animated.
You will soon be able to film a short, looping video clip to use in place of your boring, static Facebook profile photo. The video will play for anyone who visits your profile, letting you showcase a bit more of your personality.
"Profile videos will let show a part of yourself you couldn't before, and add a new dimension to your profile," Facebook Product Managers Aigerim Shorman and Tony Hsieh wrote in a Newsroom post.
Facebook is also introducing a few more handy features to help you jazz up your profile, including the ability to set a temporary version of your profile photo that reverts back to your previous pic at a specific time.
"Want to support your team in the week leading up to the big game, commemorate a special milestone like a birthday or vacation or show off a great #tbt picture?" Shorman and Hsieh wrote. "Now you can create a temporary profile picture specifically for those moments and events. It can be a visual status update to let your friends know what's going on in your life today, or it can be your statement of solidarity for a cause you feel strongly about."
The move comes after Facebook in June released a tool that lets you add a rainbow filter to your profile photo in support of marriage equality. The company said more than 26 million people used the Celebrate Pride filer, which made it apparent that "people use their profile picture to show who they are — even if it's just for a moment in time."
The company is also adding a new one-line "Bio" field at the top of profiles, where you can write a little bit about yourself. You'll also be able to select certain About fields like work and education details to show up at the top of your profile along with up to five Featured Photos.
"While this space is visible to anyone who visits your profile, you have full control of what information appears here," Shorman and Hsieh wrote.
On top of that, Facebook is tweaking mobile profile layouts so that your main photo or video shows up in the middle of the screen, bigger than it was before, instead of off to the left. Your photos and mutual friends will also be easier to see when people visit your profile on a mobile device. Facebook is currently testing these features with "a small number of iPhone users" in the U.K. and California and plans to roll them out more broadly "soon."
Earlier this year, Facebook added support for animated GIFs in status updates.
Source: pcmag.com
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