Facebook Improves Mobile Profiles, Adds Videos
Facebook rolled out updates to mobile profile pages. Users can add profile videos to better personalize their profiles and more easily control their privacy settings.
Soon, you’ll be able to film a short, looping video clip that will play for anyone who visits your profile, as you see below:
Facebook also built some new features to profile pictures. You can set a temporary version of your profile picture that reverts back to your previous profile picture at a specified time. Want to support your team in the week leading up to the big game? Now you can create a temporary profile picture specifically for those moments and events. It can be a visual status update to let your friends know what’s going on in your life today.
In addition, a new customizable space is introduced at the top of your profile. You can curate this space- and convey what you want people to know about you-by changing the visibility of the fields that show up here. You can also fill out the new, one-line 'Bio' field: select certain public About fields like work and education details to appear there; and even visually highlight what’s important to you by choosing up to five Featured Photos to be showcased at the top of your profile. While this space is visible to anyone who visits your profile, you have full control of what information appears here.
Along with these new profile features, Facebook has made some design changes to mobile profile that improve the profile layout. Profile pictures are now centered, and are bigger.
Facebook has started to test all of these features to a small number of iPhone users in the UK and California, and will be rolling them out to more people soon.