{"id":3724,"date":"2017-04-04T15:36:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T15:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=3724"},"modified":"2017-04-04T15:36:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T15:36:09","slug":"strange-rocket-button-icon-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/04\/04\/strange-rocket-button-icon-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the strange rocket button icon doing on Facebook?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social networking giant Facebook recently added a new icon\u2014that of a rocket\u2014on selected users\u2019 home screens without any hint about what to do with it or what it means, said a media report on Tuesday.<!--more--><br \/>\nOn clicking on the rocket, it leads the user to an altered version of the News Feed while the traditional one also exists alongside it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe test was a way of trying out a complementary feed of popular articles, video and photos customised for each person based on content that might be interesting to them,\u201d the Independent quoted a Facebook spokesperson as saying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was intended as a way of giving people an easy way to explore new content they haven\u2019t connected with yet,\u201d the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n<p>The rocket icon is appearing for selected users on iOS and Android at the bottom of the app\u2019s view.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook often secretly tests out potential new features on a selected number of users and the button appears to be part of such a test.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of those features don\u2019t make it to the public version of the app and this might never be seen by normal users,\u201d the report added.<\/p>\n<p>The icon appears to be similar to Instagram\u2019s \u2018Explore tab\u2019 which shows posts that the company\u2019s algorithms have determined to be relevant to users\u2019 interests.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>IANS<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Picture source: Alamy<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Picture used for illustrative purposes alone<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social networking giant Facebook recently added a new icon\u2014that of a rocket\u2014on selected users\u2019 home screens without any hint about what to do with it or what it means, said a media report on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724"}],"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=3724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3726,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724\/revisions\/3726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}