Creating throwback posts will become easier as Facebook introduced on Tuesday a new feature called ‘On This Day’. It will show users what they did or posted on the same day in the past.
This new attribute is similar to the platform’s throwback features — the ‘Look Back’ and ‘Year in Review’. The ‘On This Day’ is a new way for users to look back at things shared and posts that have been tagged. Only the user can see his or her own On This Day page.
I tried checking this update by logging on to www.facebook.com/onthisday but discovered that it is not available yet to all users but will be launched globally over the next few days.
The On This Day feature will show posts, photos, videos shared by the users or tagged by others from the same date in the past years, all on a single page. This is different from the curated video format in Look Back but similar to the timeline format of the Year in Review. The page will be exclusive for viewing for the user only unless he or she decides to share it with friends.
Users can access the platform’s new On This Day feature on both desktop and mobile in the bookmarks menu, search, News feed stories and via dedicated page: https://www.facebook.com/onthisday.
Once on the page, users can opt to subscribe to notifications so that they will receive alerts whenever they have memories to look back on. Users can also edit and delete old posts, or decide to share memories with friends.
This feature has been previously released to some users for test in 2013, but this new one will be getting improvements and we’ll see what upgrades have been made.
Are you excited to use this throwback feature? Share your comments below!
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