Very soon, you’ll be able to jazz up the way your Facebook profile looks on mobile by making Vine-like looping videos your profile picture, the company has announced. The new profile design displays more information about you and that is what people want when they visit profile pictures of their friends, colleagues or coworkers. Facebook experimented with this new feature in June, when the social network allowed users to apply a rainbow filter to show their support for LGBT rights.
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Instead of a profile picture, you can have a profile video on Facebook. Facebook is adding the option to set a temporary version of profile pictures that comes with a set expiration date. Today we’re starting to test the next step in an obvious evolution of profiles: “profile videos”, Facebook Product Managers Aigerim Shorman and Tony Hsieh wrote.
The social media giant, Facebook, will now introduce an option for users to record a seven-second video clip in GIF-style to replace static photos as the user’s profile picture. With this feature, the temporary profile picture of the Facebook user will automatically revert back to the original image after a certain period. The profile picture/video will now be centered, instead of being to the left, and will be significantly larger in size.
The most significant update for profiles is that your photo no longer has to be a “still” photo – now, you can have a profile video, Wired.com reported.
You can curate this space- and convey what you want people to know about you- by changing the visibility of the fields that show up here. Facebook believes that this new layout will be more appealing and will allow you to better present yourself to others online. While this space is visible to anyone who visits your profile, you have full control of what information appears here.
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Facebook, which has about 1.49 billion users globally, has started testing these features to a small number of iPhone users in the United Kingdom and California and will roll them out to more people soon, it said in a blog.
