Why moments facebook

When you open the app up for the first time, it'll start going through the photos you've taken with your phone camera and sorting them for you. It'll also reassure you by saying that your photos won't be posted to Facebook without your permission , which is true although the photos will be stored on Facebook's servers! After all that's done, you can take more photos, or share them with friends.

Sharing is easy : just select a Facebook friend and it'll reach them via Messenger. Organizing photos is easy, too. The app actually does this automatically, by who's in them and where they were taken, but you can fine-tune things a bit more if that suits your fancy.

Regardless of what you're doing with it, it's easy to use. The only problem is that there's no way to edit photos. You can't even crop photos, or frame them, like you might in other photo apps. There's no bones about it: Moments is made to be used with Facebook. The app was first created as a replace for Facebook's own synchronized photos, and even today, it functions at its best some would say at all with the Facebook app installed and a healthy friends list.

Let's go over the features that integrate with Facebook: by default, the app scans photos with facial recognition to suggest who you should tag in a given photo. Click here to join our channel indianexpress and stay updated with the latest headlines. Assam Rifles Commandant, his family members among 7 killed in ambush in Manipur 'Will lockdown, stopping of vehicles help? Moment users will have until May to export the photos back to the device.

Anecdotally, I forgot I had even downloaded the app, and when I opened it back up to write this story, I saw that my last shared album was from 4 years ago. The announcement comes as Facebook deals with bigger challenges.

Last year, the social network faced crisis after crisis , from disinformation campaigns to major security breaches. But from a product standpoint, Facebook launches and shuts down standalone apps all the time.

Some other shuttered apps include Paper, Facebook's slick news-reading app; Poke, its Snapchat Clone; and Rooms, an anonymous chatting app. The Smartest Stuff : Innovators are thinking up new ways to make you, and the things around you, smarter. Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. Facebook Moments, the standalone mobile app designed to let users privately share photos and videos, is shutting down next month.

Moments users should see a message warning them of the imminent end of the app. Below the message is an option to export photos and videos.