Facebook threat to users: do not install this APP by deleting photos-Facebook-IT information

According to several foreign media reports, Facebook recently began to offer users "ultimatum", saying they sync to Facebook photos have been transferred to a new photo management application, sharing Moments, will be removed from the Facebook Server next month, if the user wants to keep photos, Moments or installed or from the server and then downloaded the photos. In this regard, many foreign media to Facebook topped the "threat to users to download Moments" charges.

Facebook users to send email notifications from Gizmodo

Facebook Photo Sync feature enabled in 2012, is to facilitate the users to upload photos. Users Sync photos will be saved in a separate folder, as long as the user does not choose to share, those photos will not be published. But now, Facebook says it will on July 7, shut this feature completely, before the user if they want to continue to manage the synchronization of photos to download Moments.

However, new applications not just Moments from Facebook Photo sync tool for stripping out on the main application. Moments of Facebook AI research laboratory (FAIR) are developing face recognition technology, you can identify the characters in the picture, and match them with Facebook friends, give the user at one time a large number of friends to share pictures of the privacy to each other. In addition, with the location technology, Moments also optimized photo management, and search.

However, many angry users apparently aren't buying it, in the face of Facebook "unreasonable" email notifications, some users said even lifetime boycott Facebook, Facebook is how to think about? In fact, since 2014 Facebook remove the chat application from the main feature, and transferred to the Messenger started it, Facebook this Peel-specific features and publish an independent App trend becomes more obvious. Facebook has said that it's all about the user experience, because the independent App can better adapt to the user's individual requirements.

According to Fortune analysis, an independent App will bring greater flexibility for cash, or this is the real motivation Facebook continue to split the main App features. In Messenger, for example, before it was born out of Facebook chat, users can only send text messages on Facebook, which greatly limits the imagination of realisation. When the Messenger when opened to third-party applications last year, and it already has multimedia information sharing, chat robots, query package and a wide range of functions, its ultimate goal is to become like the app, like the "universal application". Although Facebook's built-in chat feature is not the same as photo synchronization is shutting down, but it does not have much time, Facebook had given a shut down time this summer.

Of course, the Messenger of the solo path has not been smooth, except for certain users to worry about positioning function beyond the loss of privacy, but was also felt at the same time using two application reduces efficiency. But these problems do not prevent the Messenger was a huge success, and by the end of last year, Messenger monthly active users has exceeded 800 million mark. Moments will be as good as a Messenger? Answers will not wait for too long.

Facebook威胁用户：不装这款APP就删照片 - Facebook - IT资讯

据多家外媒报道，Facebook最近开始向用户发出“最后通牒”，称他们同步到Facebook上的照片已转移至新的照片管理、分享应用Moments，将于下月从Facebook服务器上删除，用户若想保住照片，要么安装Moments，要么从服务器上再把这些照片下载下来。对此，不少外媒给Facebook冠上了“威胁用户下载Moments”的罪名。

Facebook给用户发出的邮件通知，来自Gizmodo

Facebook的照片同步功能启用于2012年，目的是方便用户上传照片。用户同步的照片会先存到一个独立的文件夹中，只要用户不选择分享，这些照片就不会公开。但现在，Facebook表示将于7月7日彻底关停这一功能，用户若想继续管理之前同步的照片，就需下载Moments。

不过，新应用Moments可不只是从Facebook主应用上剥离出来的照片同步工具。Moments采用了Facebook人工智能研究实验室（FAIR）正在研发的人脸识别技术，可以识别出照片中的人物，并将他们与Facebook好友匹配，使得用户能够一次性将大量好友的照片私密分享给对方。此外，配合定位技术，Moments也优化了照片管理和搜索。

但是，许多愤怒的用户显然对此并不买账，面对Facebook略“不近人情”的邮件通知，有些用户甚至表示要终身抵制Facebook，那Facebook究竟是怎么考虑的呢？事实上，自2014年Facebook从主应用中移除聊天功能，并将其转移到Messenger上开始，Facebook这种剥离特定功能并发布独立App的趋势就变得日益明显。Facebook曾表示这一切都是为了用户体验着想，因为独立App可以更好地适应用户的个性化需求。

而据Fortune分析，独立App将为变现带来更大的灵活性，或这许才是Facebook陆续剥离主App功能的真正动机。以Messenger为例，在它脱胎于Facebook聊天功能之前，用户只能在Facebook上发送文字信息，这就大大限制了变现的想象空间。而当Messenger于去年向第三方应用开放时，它已经具备了多媒体信息分享、聊天机器人、查询包裹等多种多样的功能，其最终目的就是成为像微信一样的“全能应用”。虽然Facebook内置的聊天功能还没有像照片同步一样被关停，但它的时间也不多了，Facebook此前给出的关停时间正是今年夏季。

当然，Messenger的单飞之路并非一帆风顺，除了某些用户担心定位功能暴露隐私之外，还有人觉得同时使用两个应用反而降低了效率。但这些问题并没有妨碍Messenger大获成功，到去年年底，Messenger月活跃用户已突破8亿大关。Moments会不会像Messenger一样好命呢？答案不会等待太久。