{"id":3639,"date":"2017-03-28T16:14:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T16:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=3639"},"modified":"2017-03-28T16:14:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T16:14:48","slug":"got-camera-facebook-adds-snapchat-like-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/03\/28\/got-camera-facebook-adds-snapchat-like-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Got camera? Facebook adds more Snapchat-like features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is adding more Snapchat-like features to its app. The company says it wants to let people\u2019s cameras \u201cdo the talking\u201d as more people are posting photos and videos instead of blocks of text.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With the update coming to users, Facebook is adding a camera icon to the top left corner of its mobile app. Users can tap it to open their phone\u2019s camera to do a photo or video post. Users could post photos from the app before, it just took two taps.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s other new Snapchat-copycat features are filters and animations that can be added to images, and a \u201cstories\u201d feature that lets users post photos and videos that stay live for 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Snapchat pioneered the camera-first sharing and is wildly popular with younger users.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Picture source: Alamy Image<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Image used for illustrative purposes<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is adding more Snapchat-like features to its app. The company says it wants to let people\u2019s cameras \u201cdo the talking\u201d as more people are posting photos and videos instead of blocks of text.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3641,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions\/3641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}