Facebook is Testing a ‘Save for Later’ Feature for its Users

By: Kuljit Grewal  |   August 6th, 2012   |   Business, Mobile Apps, News, Social Media

The world’s largest social networking website is testing a new feature that will allow its users to save stories and other content that appears on their News Feed and friends’ walls for later consumption.

This type of functionality puts Facebook in similar competition with companies like Instapaper and Pocket as well as Spool, a start-up that Facebook recently acquired and shut down. Such sites allow content to be saved within an app for offline reading, with Spool having extended what was available to include videos as well.

 

It seems as if we are beginning to see what Zuckerberg and team had planned for the content saving company.

 

According to Mashable, the current testing has been reserved for a small group of randomly selected Facebook users, with the company monitoring the use and effectiveness carefully before extending the roll out as they see fit.

 

The function, known as ‘Save for Later’, will allow users to essentially bookmark content for later by pressing (touch screen) on the story and waiting for a “Save” pop-up to appear. The selected story will then appear in a Saved folder that is found under the Apps category on iOS and mobile versions of the site. Desktop users will be able to save content using a ‘Save’ button found near the ‘Like’ button.

 

Although there is no telling if Facebook will go through with the full integration of ‘Save for Later’, we see it as having a vast amount of potential. More than ever, social networking is becoming the way that information and news are propagated among the populace, and the ability to indentify and save material that will be consumed at a later time can be invaluable for those with desire for knowledge who are pressed for time.

 

If you have the feature available to you, please let us know what you think of it and how you are using it to make your Facebook experience better.