The New Facebook Feature Lets You Post to Your Friends' News Feeds and Not Your Timeline

This may totally Snapchat-inspired! Facebook new feature that changes how users create status updates. Now you will be able to post the update only to the news feed without also having it on your timeline.

The feature is meant for those who want to post something that will appear for a few days on their friends' feeds but may not want it on their timeline forever. It will, however, still show up in search results. The update will likely encourage Facebookers to share short-lived content or random news without it staying front and center on their social-media page forever.

“The Timeline on your profile is a great place to see a comprehensive history of your Facebook posts,” Facebook representatives told The Next Web. “We’ve heard feedback that sometimes you may want to share a post with friends and family via News Feed and not have that post be displayed on your Timeline. The ability to hide a post from your Timeline already exists, and today we’re testing a feature that would make it even easier to control where your posts live by giving you the option to publish a post only to News Feed and not to your Timeline.”

Currently, the new News Feed-only posting feature is available on Facebook on the Web but not on mobile. When you begin writing a status update in the box at the top of the News Feed, you'll see a new check box for Hide From Your Timeline. Check the box and your status update will be posted to the News Feed while bypassing your Timeline.

This new Hide From Your Timeline check box is not listed, however, when sharing a post from your News Feed. When sharing, you still have the same options to share to your own Timeline, a friend's Timeline or in a group or event. 

 

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