Your facebook Profile percentCan Now Be An Animated Selfie

fb is rolling out updates to its profile pages, including the choice to make use of a brief, looping video as your profile photograph.

through John Paul Titlow

September 30, 2015

Your fb profile is boring as hell. do not get me improper: Your cover image is completely spot-on, your latest trip pictures are gorgeous, and that status replace you made the opposite day about Donald Trump was once hilarious. but the whole thing appears a bit… static. do not you assume?

smartly, that’s about to vary. facebook will soon mean you can add quick, looping video clips as your major profile picture. The seven-2d movies will start looping when every other person views your profile.

This might really feel like a considerable change to the facebook profile layout, nevertheless it is sensible within the broader scheme of the social net because it exists in 2015. Twitter supports GIFs (and Vines loop mechanically on the platform), Tumblr is flooded with mini-animations, Snapchat looms massive, and fb itself has made an enormous push into video as of today, where so many additional revenue dollars look forward to. It seems only fitting that our profile images must morph into Harry Potter‘s transferring pictures.

The replace comes alongside plenty of different profile modifications, all of a good way to start rolling out to choose customers on Wednesday. On cell, your profile picture can be now be centered, as a substitute of aligned to the left. fb has additionally reconfigured the design of your mates’ profiles, in response to how neatly you already know the particular person. as an example, the profile of somebody you simply met will floor completely different knowledge than the profile of a longtime friend. These are the kind of contextual design adjustments that facebook researchers have been tinkering with for some time.

facebook may also mean you can set a brief profile image, a good move given that we every now and then set our profile photos to mark certain events, but then forget to change them back to one thing more in most cases acceptable. That picture of you sitting on Santa’s lap as a child is cute, nevertheless it’s nearly October.

[by the use of TechCrunch]