14 DAY TRIAL // Facebook is playing around with a new feature that users will surely enjoy, especially if they’re likely to post a lot of photos from their vacations or other events they take part in.
For those of you who often upload pictures to the Google cloud, the feature might seem a bit familiar because it has a lot of similarities to Stories.
Given the name “Trips Slideshow,” the new feature seems to be currently in testing on Facebook’s mobile apps. The Next Web received a tip from one of the readers indicating that after returning from Greece, the Facebook app on his iPhone created a slideshow of the trip.
Others are also talking about this on Twitter, so the new tool is available for quite a few people, even though it hasn’t exactly been formally introduced by Facebook.
The feature works pretty much like the Year in Review one that Facebook introduced a while back, the one that takes pictures and posts from your activity feed and provides a video that you can share on the platform. These can be edited in case Facebook got it wrong.
Trips Slideshow, however, gets photos from your most recent trip compiled together to give you something to look at on those busy work days when you wish you were somewhere else than at your desk.
The slideshow has a cover, followed by a map of the place you visited, and then moves on to various highlights – pictures, as well as the comments you wrote about them.
Google+ Stories did it first
As mentioned, the feature is quite similar top Google+ Stories which puts together various events from your life. The service will notice when you have a lot of pictures taken in a short interval and put together a story for you. It can be a night out in the town, a party with your friends or a trip abroad.
These too can be edited and shared with friends or kept private. Google implemented the feature a while back and has integrated it with the other Google Photos features, that includes creating Auto Awesome pictures and GIFs, as well as enhancing various features and fixing various lighting, contrast and balance issues, to name just a few.
Whether Facebook will end up rolling out this new feature to all users, it remains to be seen, but chances are that we’ll indeed see something soon.
