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Facebook v8.0 app for iOS brings improved private photo sharing, and more

Facebook v8.0 app for iOS brings improved private photo sharing, and more 122p5u

By Rohan Swamy | Updated: 19 March 2014 12:46 IST

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Facebook, on Tuesday, released the updated version of its iOS. The new update is a renewed effort by the social-networking giant to improve on the niche segment of private sharing. The version released-v8.0 allows s to select specific people who will be able to see the s' photo albums in their feed.

Facebook had already rolled out the feature for individual statuses and photos over the last few months. The new version extends the same feature to entire photo albums as well - Facebook calls it a "A simple way to see and choose a photo album's audience." The option to select the photo albums, according to reports, has a lot of similarities to Snapchat. 6e3c2v

The sharing of the photos is set to 'Friends' by default. A tap to the same will reveal a pre-made friends list, or options to create a new custom list. Essentially, every time s wants to share photos, they will have to either use the pre-made list or create a new one. Facebook has been trying to push private sharing, which it calls 'micro sharing' since 2007. It has ever since then met with mixed success on the same. It might also be possible that like Facebook's other endeavours, like Groups and Smart Lists, this feature might take time to be accepted by s or might fly under the radar (like its predecessors) completely.

And Facebook is not the only one to try private sharing as a feature. Instagram Direct, which is a photo messaging feature didn't take off, and Snapchat's Stories didn't make much headway with the mainstream audiences either.

In addition to the photo-sharing feature, Facebook on the iPad", and also touts other "improvements for reliability and speed." The app doesn't come with any major changes as s may have expected with a major version number change, save the private photo sharing option. It will be interesting to see how it is accepted by s in the future.

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