The all-new design of Facebook for viewing photos now appears to be rolling out to quite a few users. This new photos interface launched by Facebook features larger images, a lightbox-type UI and other unique features. This has put Facebook to become more competitive with Flickr which is well-known for its casual and social photography front.
These new Facebook Photos have been already featured some months ago around the end of September. A lot has beginning to wonder why Facebook is delaying a general roll-out of this feature while some users have been already using this for quite a while.
Furthermore, the new photo viewer was confirmed already by Facebook to be on its way to all users soon. This new interface will be seen to take effect on several accounts.
This brand new photo interface was launched by Facebook so users will now be able to browse through many photos in the lightbox layer without rupturing the underlying page and losing their places. This also has other useful features such as hi-res photos, photo-download links and bulk tagging options.
Screenshot of Premium SEO Solutions‘ Fan Page Photo Interface
Users have noted that the last fall of these kinds of feature upgrades strongly reflect recent changes to Flickr’s own UI during the summer last year. Aside from this, Facebook’s photo offering along with Tag Suggestions, a.k.a. nascent facial recognition technology, still remains strong and competitive. And this has been a distinguishing factor of this controversial social network site.
The new photo interface may have been rolled out already in some accounts. Expect it to come over the next couple of weeks if you still don’t have it as of this moment. Can you have your own observation about these improvements? Do you think this feature will be more welcomed than other changes Facebook has made in the fast? Check your Facebook accounts and see for yourself.
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