Monday, 1 September 2014
Bloomberg reported Thursday that the company is testing a new option for the Facebook app that will allow people to search through their friends' posts. People will also be able to comb through old posts on pages they "like." So if you posted a ridiculous ode to your ex in 2009, this feature would make it a lot easier for your friends to dig it up. All they'd have to do is search for it.
So essentially, if you want to see old posts related to your friend Sarah Jones's wedding, you would search for "Sarah Jones wedding."
The feature, which only counts for
posts you’re allowed to see (meaning that private posts won’t show up)
has currently only been rolled out to a select few, but will likely be
officially added into an update of the Facebook iOS app in the near future. The addition is part of a push over the past two or three years to turn Facebook into a “mobile first” company:
a phrased used by Facebook engineer Vijay Shankar when I interviewed
him earlier this year. With the addition of search tools, the idea is
that harder-to-navigate mobile devices will be easier for users to
extract relevant information from.
