If you ’ve been on Facebook in the retiring 6 months ( likely , since you ’re here ) , you ’ve witness the barrage of Facebook Live , the social medium behemoth ’s new push toward taking over your life . celebrity and publishers alike have adopted the applied science –Mark Zuckerberg really wants it to be a thing– in part because it rewards users by increasing their audience strain . Facebook Live is the newrecipe video rising tideof the platform ’s algorithm .
But with the Modern tech fall a stark realness : most Facebook lively video sucks . You ’ll be scroll through your feed , and suddenly , you see a half - second of some guy wire speak about a thing you do n’t handle about because you hovered too long . The successful videos have mostly been gimmicky – look towardBuzzfeed ’s watermelon vine - detonate stunt– but those are rare . Mostly , it ’s exhibitionist nobodies , or somebodies without great estimate on what to do live .
Well , now , at least , they ’re all in one place .
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If you control out the right side bar of your Facebook page , under " Apps , " you ’ll see a novel entry topping the list : Live Video . Click the words and you bring up this handy - bang-up map .
As you get down your sorcerous journey , you ’ll see a master video lodged in the top - left corner of your screen door , resting above a smattering of other video thumbnail . They ’re more a beguilement than the main show here .
The true genius is the map , of course . Various hotspots around the world show who ’s live and where , and hovering over will bring up that live feed , along with data on how many live spectator a video currently has and lines connecting them from wherever they are around the orb .
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If you ’ve ever wanted to watch someone get a tattoo in Colombia , or hear a fair sex in Madagascar response random questions , or catch the New York Times fiddle around with some stilted thing , all as it happen , well , now there ’s a map for you .
The worst young development ( forgetful of whenever Facebook Snuff Live last happens ) , of course of instruction , is the proliferation of people using Live while driving . Whether cellular telephone phones are the new dashcams or not is hard to say at this distributor point . But nobody watches dashcam videos after the fact because just thing happened .
If you ’re thinking of using Facebook Live while driving : please do n’t , even if you do deserve a Darwin Award .
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In the end , the fresh map is a clean tool that reach perusing live events around the world more approachable . It ’ll belt down your processor and gum up your desktop while it ’s running , but for the next major geopolitical events , ( think Tahrir Square ) , or immense sporting outcome happen ( Super Bowl , NBA finals ) , you could be there , for anything , as long as someone has a phone and an Internet connection . Which is pretty nerveless to think about .
Also , pretty fearful , too .
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