{"id":2674,"date":"2016-10-24T18:04:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T15:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/?p=2674"},"modified":"2016-10-14T22:18:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T19:18:45","slug":"5-new-social-platform-features-that-you-need-to-know-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/5-new-social-platform-features-that-you-need-to-know-about\/","title":{"rendered":"New Social Platform Features That You Need to Know About"},"content":{"rendered":"
The social media\u00a0landscape is constantly changing, everyday there are new options and tools being announced and introduced, some major and some less significant. And in that, there are also some of those smaller, minor updates or tests that are important to specific groups but can go under the radar because they\u2019re not widely announced.<\/p>\n
As part of our ongoing effort to provide our readers with the best coverage of the latest social media news and insights, we feel it\u2019s important to cover all of these, but sometimes they\u2019re\u00a0not worthy of a their own individual post. So to keep you up to date on these smaller changes and features, here\u2019s a rundown of five\u00a0upcoming or \u201cin test mode\u201d features that are currently being trialed by\u00a0some of the major platforms –\u00a0starting with Facebook, which has several interesting new options in the works.<\/p>\n
Policing offensive material on social is always a challenge, and one that\u2019s been made even more difficult with the advent of live-streaming – when the content is coming through in real-time, how can you censor it? For their part, Facebook has a whole team<\/a> of people who scan through potentially offensive material on the platform and flag or remove as necessary \u2013 but even with such processes in place, The Social Network still receives many complaints from users about confronting material everyday coming up in their feeds.<\/p>\n As part of a new effort to combat the problem, Facebook is trialing a new \u2018Mature Content<\/a>\u2019 filter option for users.<\/p>\n