Facebook's new Moments app is now available in South Africa. It allows users to share photographs privately with each other at and after events, as well as intelligently store and organise their images.
"It's hard to get the photos your friends have taken of you, and everyone always insists on taking that same group shot with multiple phones to ensure they get a copy," said Facebook product manager Will Ruben in a blog post when the app was launched in the US in June.
"Syncing photos with the Moments app is a private way to give photos to friends and get the photos you didn't take."
Once the images are shared, the app then groups the photos on the user's device based on where they were taken and which friends are in the photographs, using facial recognition technology. The app will also prompt users to share photographs with specific friends once they are recognised.
Moments uses facial recognition technology to group photos based on the 'friends' who are in them, similar to the automation tagging on the social platform. Users are able to control how they are tagged in their Settings.
Search engine giant Google announced, at the annual IO conference, its own photo storage solution with Google Photos.
Facebook has not said if it will limit the number of photos stored on the Moments app. Google Photos allows users to store an unlimited amount of high-quality photos and videos free of charge. However, any picture with a resolution above 16MP and video more than 1080p will be compressed.
The Moments app comes out of Facebook's Creative Labs and is available today in South Africa from the App Store or Google Play.
Donate Now button
Facebook has also added a new feature to the main social platform, allowing non-profit organisations to add a Donate Now button to their Facebook page.
"Every day, people use Facebook to raise awareness and support for causes they care about and to motivate others to do the same. We're inspired by how much good comes from these connections, so we've added 'Donate Now' calls-to-action on Pages and link ads to make those connections easier than ever," a Facebook spokesperson said yesterday.
The call-to-action option can be placed on both link ads and Pages, and is available to any Page worldwide labelled as a non-profit organisation.
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