Facebook unveiled a new app called Moments. This app helps exchange of photos between friends who were together at an event or place easier and privately. This isn’t the first time the company has tried getting into the photo-sharing business. Last year, Facebook introduced a snapchat clone called sling-shot but that didn’t see any success since snapchat is leading that market but now, it seems like Facebook has finally gotten private photo-sharing right with Moments, with some impressive facial recognition features!
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In the announcement of Moments, Product Manager Will Rubin describes the app as complementary to events where you and your friends are all taking and posting the same photos—or, perhaps more accurately, as an answer to the person who always asks “Will you send that to me,” or “Will you post that so I can have it?”
It’s hard to get the photos your friends have taken of you, and everyone always insists on taking that same group shot with multiple phones to ensure they get a copy. Even if you do end up getting some of your friends’ photos, it’s difficult to keep them all organized in one place on your phone.
Through the use of location and facial-recognition data, Moments groups photos together and then asks if you’d like to share them with the people it has recognized, and vice-president instead of taking one picture with so many photos so as to avoid the hassle of sharing them later.
Will Moments catch on? Perhaps—it definitely addresses a pain point. Right now, sharing photos with friends is too much hassle and I’m talking about friends on different platforms but Facebook seems to have solved that problem with its Moments app.
Moments is currently available to the U.S right now but Facebook is working on making it available to more countries. You can download Moments from iTunes and Google Play now.
