Facebook is again renamed the “video” section of its app. This time, the card previously known as ““that it was also once called”“It will become” rollers “. The change comes while the company says that all the videos on the social network will now fall under the” coils “umbrella, regardless of how much the clip lasted or how it was shot.
Second The change will make things easier for users and creators who share video clips on the platform. Previously, the users had to decide if they wanted a given video to be a “coil”, shorter clips that are recommended throughout the Facebook app, or a “video”, which also included live content and longer, as well as post video intended only for friends. Now, that distinction will no longer have importance.
While once the coils were explicitly designed for short -minute short or less shape videos, destination gradually expanded the format. On Instagram, now the coils can be long. On Facebook, there will be no higher limit on how long a “coil” can be. “You will be able to create and share rollers of any length or orientation, whether it is a quick vertical clip of 30 seconds or an in -depth horizontal episode, more than 20 minutes,” destination .
This change could end up being slightly confused since most people are used to “reviving” being shorter vertical clip rather than “episodes”. It is also considerably different from how the video on Instagram works, in which the coils still have time constraints. It could also raise questions from the point of view of privacy as the coils are generally public posts, while many Facebook users upload videos that they want to share only with their existing friends (Meta says that it will push users to revisit their privacy settings once the change extends to ensure that their clips do only to the planned public.)
Meta notes that the changes will extend slowly “in the coming months”, so people will have some time to adapt to the new format.
