Facebook Introduces Bookmarking Feature ‘Save’ For Users

It looks like the Facebook has finally found a way to use the firm called Spool, which it bought two years back. To be precise, Facebook has finally announced a new feature called ‘Save' which is very much similar to read-it-later feature.

Facebook's new offering, in fact helps save links, places, movies, TV and music from News Feed and Facebook Pages, which will allow the users to view or read later.

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Via an official blog, Facebook said, "Every day, people find all sorts of interesting items on Facebook that they don't have time to explore right away. Now you can save items that you find on Facebook to check out later when you have more time. You can save items like links, places, movies, TV and music. Only you can see the items you save unless you choose to share them with friends."

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Moreover, Facebook will also send out reminders of your saved items. The company will begin rolling out the new feature over the next couple of days. With 'Save', users can indicate that they want to bookmark content to revisit later. The feature is available for iOS, Android and Web users.

"Every day, people find all sorts of interesting items on Facebook that they don't have time to explore right away. Now you can save items that you find on Facebook to check out later when you have more time," Daniel Giambalvo, Software Engineer at Facebook wrote in a blog post.

The latest move from Facebook is clearly designed to compete with popular mobile app Pocket.

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