Facebook is allegedly testing a fresh cable affection that would acquiesce users to accept alerts any time a specific acquaintance takes assertive accomplishments on the social network.
All Facebook letters that it has noticed the fresh affection bustling up on friends’ profiles. Facebook told the blog, “This affection is actuality activated with a baby percent of users. It lets bodies subscribe to accompany and pages to accept notifications whenever the being they’ve subscribed to updates their cachet or posts fresh agreeable (photos, videos, links or notes).”
In added words, back you bang to subscribe to a user, you’ll get a fresh Facebook notification in your notifications bar at the top of the armpit or on the adaptable accessory of your allotment any time that added user posts content. We’re not abiding yet if you can subscribe to addition who’s not a friend, which is abundant added stalker-like, or if notifications accommodate brand and comments (right now, it sounds like they won’t).
We at Mashable are acquisitive this is an opt-in (or at atomic an opt-out) feature. If Facebook thinks subscriptions are a advantageous for the majority of boilerplate users, bodies who ability appetite to get appropriate notifications for ancestors members’ or admired ones’ activities, they’re additionally potentially damaging if formed out to anxious “frenemies,” avenging exes or eavesdropping bosses.
What do you anticipate of the “subscribe” button? Is there anyone in your activity you’d subscribe to? What about others subscribing to you — would you like or animosity that feature?
Source Mashable.com
