Facebook announced today it is now letting its users leave video comments in a move to intensify video content exchange and preserve leading positions on a highly competitive market.
“At Facebook’s 50th Hackathlon early this year, we prototyped the ability to upload a video into comments and replies on posts, because we wanted enable more engaging and immersive conversations. This adds to the suite of multimedia features within comments including: links, photos, stickers, emoji, and starting today video,” Facebook engineer Bob Baldwin wrote.
The videos in comments are now available globally. Users can post them as comments to posts. All you have to do in to click on the camera icon next to the comment field, then record and upload your video comment on the fly. The new feature is supported on desktop web, iOS, and Android.