Facebook Recommends Similar Pages When You Like A Timeline

When liking a new page on Facebook, the social platform will now suggest other pages you may find interesting and wish to like. These will appear underneath the cover image on a page’s Timeline.

Facebook is testing this new module so that when a user clicks Like on some pages, a box will appear under the cover photo showing ‘More Pages You May Like’. Pages of a similar category will be displayed that when hovered over will show the option to Like the page.

Similar categories such as local pages, entertainment or others will show up when liking a Page, but it doesn’t appear on all pages yet. These additions to pages are not paid placements, but Facebook chooses them due to their location, category and other pages that users Like.

Recommended pages have appeared for a long time in sidebar modules on Facebook but this new addition is the first sight of it happening on a page itself.

Seeing recommended pages on the same page can increase likelihood of a business or company being noticed and more widespread on Facebook. However, it can distract a user from further interacting with a page if they are immediately shown other pages.

Nonetheless, this addition to Facebook could be an influential step for businesses looking to make the most out of social media.

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Facebook Surpasses Google Maps As The Most Popular Mobile App in the US

Internet analytics company ComScore has released estimated figures revealing that Facebook overtook Google Maps as the most popular US mobile app late last year.

As the graph shows, up until September both apps were showing a steady increase in Monthly Unique Visitors, then Google Maps saw a drop between September and August from roughly 81,000 to 71,000 MUVs, while Facebook only saw a slight dip.

At its highest point, in December, Facebook was registering over 85,000 Monthly Unique Visitors, while Google Maps had picked up slightly, registering just under 75,000.

Mobile users are also spending the longest time on Facebook of all the apps: 23% of the time they devote to apps is spent on Facebook, with the next most popular, Instagram, only claiming 3%. Google apps combined take a 10% claim.

Google will not be too concerned with these figures, however, as Google Maps expects to see an increase in usage now that it has been released as a standalone app on iOS services.

Google can also count many of their services in ComScore’s top 10 most-used mobile apps in December, including Google Play, Google Search, Gmail, and YouTube.

The reason for Google Maps’ drop in September is obvious: the introduction of Apple Maps which, although a failure, still stole customers from its Google counterpart.

How much time do you spent on Facebook Mobile and the Google Map app?

Facebook For Android App Updated With Improved Photos, Sharing, And Voice Messaging

The Facebook Android app has been updated with new features concerning photo viewing, sharing abilities and voice messaging.

Faster photos are now available on the app. Simply when opening the app on an Android device, the photos will appear more quickly.

The sharing functionality of the app has been improved. Users of the app have the ability to share their friends’ stories to different Timelines, groups, and pages. Android users were previously only able to share friends’ stories on to their own Timeline.
Also, Facebook for Android now has voice messaging which can be accessed within the app. Users of the Facebook Messenger app just a couple of weeks ago were given the ability to send voice messages. This was then applied to iOS and Android devices. Similarly, the social platform made VoIP calling available to users in the U.S. on iOS devices.

A major upgrade took place for the Android version around a month ago as version 2.0 was labelled as being ‘twice as fast’ in most general areas of the app.

The update of speed for Android came after a similar update of the iOS version of Facebook. Both apps had received complaints from users about the speed of it, meaning that Facebook chose to rebuild the apps from scratch with that issue in mind.

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