Starting January 10, Facebook will
replace its “Synced from Phone” photo album with a notification
explaining the change and a link to download Moments.
Facebook says that as people
increasingly share photos on social platforms through mobile, the photo
syncing feature for its mobile app has become irrelevant.
“The feature was launched in 2012 when
people took photos on their phones, but still posted primarily from
computers,” Facebook said in a statement.
“People that use photo syncing will have
the option to move the photos they have previously synced to our new
app Moments, where they will be able to view, download, or delete them,”
the statement read.
In that sense, Facebook sees Moments as a
logical extension of how we snap and share pictures today: not by
selectively uploading them to another destination and sharing later, but
through intelligent algorithms that do the work for us entirely on our
smartphones.
Moments was launched as a way to
capitalise on Facebook’s face-recognition technology to automatically
create photo albums of you and your friends.
The app also uses location and date information to group the photos.
Users who do not want to download
Moments can download a zip file of their photos from the album before
the feature is removed, Facebook said.
Source : IndianMediaBook - Current Affairs
