Is Facebook's cloud storage a welfare or a trap?

Facebook, which has been dissipated by people all over the world for a long time, has tried its best to save its reputation in the near future. In addition to constant apologies and various privacy commitments, Facebook has also played a variety of tricks on the features of its products. For example, Facebook has been on the dating function a few days ago, trying to become into the "Matchmaker" to lead the red line.

And right now, Facebook has introduced new features including story files and cloud storage. The benefits of these new features are certainly many, but given Facebook’s previous mistakes, it’s hard to let users trust it 100%.

Facebook is mainly doing several updates on the app, which will help users better "create and save memories." These updates allow users to save photos and videos directly to an account in the Facebook cloud, send voice messages to friends, and archive their favorite Facebook stories. Specifically, these updates are mainly for users to "save first and then do" - to be able to share photos, stories, etc. directly in Facebook, and then process them after time.

Among them, Facebook camera will enable two of the three new features. After taking a photo or video with a Facebook camera, the user can see a new option to save the photo or video directly to a Facebook account. Photos and videos saved to your Facebook account can only be seen when the user logs in to Facebook - this is called privacy protection.

Another feature allows users to archive their stories, like Facebook cameras, which can be kept secret. Facebook believes that the ability to upload to cloud storage space may convince regions outside of North America, Europe, and Asia to use story features more frequently.

In this regard, Facebook related product director Connor Hayes said, "Save photos and videos can be used to save content that you want to post later. Therefore, users do not have to edit or post photos and videos when they are out with friends, but can Share it in your free time.” But it also means that the new gameplay launched by Facebook is actually controlling user sharing. Photos, videos, stories, etc. uploaded in the Facebook cloud storage space will be "controlled" by Facebook before being released.

It is undeniable that some of the features that Facebook launched this time are more like "welfare" and may be welcomed by some users. Especially for users who use entry-level devices, they often live in low-bandwidth Internet areas or have limited mobile space. Facebook's new features help save local storage on storage-limited entry-level devices. After all, these users must delete a photo before they can share a new photo.

Perhaps this is why the media broke the news that Facebook's new features will first be launched to Indian users - after all, the Internet infrastructure there is generally, and the smartphones in the hands of users are mostly low-end models. According to the media, these features will be introduced to other countries and regions in the future.

These new features will undoubtedly have many benefits for Facebook, such as it is possible to get more audio files, photos and videos in order to get more profit. Can't blame the industry for having such "malicious speculation", just because Facebook