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Facebook's how you're feeling and what you're doing status update options rolling out to Indian users

Facebook's how you're feeling and what you're doing status update options rolling out to Indian users

By Anupam Saxena | Updated: 31 May 2013 17:36 IST

It looks like Facebook is now rolling out the option to share how you're feeling or what you're doing in the Facebook status update box, to users in India.

The options offer drop down boxes featuring emoticons and activities such as watching, reading, listening to, drinking, and eating. After selecting an activity that involves media, the status update also includes an image and link to the content's Facebook Page. For instance you can now share that you're watching 'Ek Tha Tiger' or reading 'The Immortals of Meluha' from a list that Facebook offers. Users can also add their own titles after which Facebook offers a list of pages related to it.

There's not much difference in the update options from what we had seen initially, though Facebook has added some Indian titles to media status updates.

Facebook also notifies users that the details they add to posts also appear on their About page and other places on Facebook. What this essentially means is that when you share data, Facebook could use it for recommending pages or showing ads. It would now be easier for Facebook to also use these with Graph Search that lets people trawl their network of friends to find everything from restaurants to movie recommendations in the future, although it had denied doing so when it first talked about the update in January with a select group of users. Users would be creating a lot of meta-data around their everyday habits and consumption.

Facebook had started rolling out this option to users in the US in Aprilbut at that point in time it was not clear whether it was in testing phase or Facebook would extend it to other regions.

With the move, Facebook would also be able to take on apps and services like Path, GetGlue and Goodreads as a lot of users post their activities to Facebook via these apps. They'll now be able to do the same with the Facebook app directly.

It's clear that Facebook wants to be an integral part of its users' daily life, as evident with the launch of Home, a home screen for Android phones where users get constant updates from Facebook on their phones. It had also started rolling out a major makeover of the home page where the News Feed presents bigger photos and links, including for advertisements, and lets users see specialized streams focused on topics like music and posts by close friends

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