Video streaming is the next frontier for major social media companies to conquer. In the year 2015, more than 3 billion of video were watched daily across the globe. Even in Nigeria, it is not uncommon to see youths watching videos online via YouTube. YouTube recently launched a live streaming function for it subscribers and now, Facebook is ready to do just the same by allowing it users to share live video with friends and public.

There are so many social events that Nigerians want to share live with friends. It can be a wedding ceremony,   child dedication, religious speeches and so much more. There are other applications that share live video but most do not have the popularity, ease of usage and dynamics of Facebook.  Periscope is yet to get the acceptance needed for it to be seen as a top contender in the industry.

Recently, Facebook starting trying out its live video streaming function with some selected iPhone users in the USA. The function that is set to share video with friends by default ‘can be set to share with the public too’ is expected to enjoy a massive success when released final for all users in the year 2016. One unique feature of this app is that, it will run within the native Facebook application. There won’t be any need to download any third party application to make it work.

The function will allow you to invite people to watch live video and for friends that are joining the stream midway, they can rewind and start from the beginning. Every streamed video will be posted on you timeline after you have pressed the stop button. You can engage in text chat with friends and other watchers during the course of a video. Those that watch your video will be asked to subscribe to your video channel and those that do will be alerted next time you are about to stream a video live.

Facebook will also be bringing on a fresh collage feature that goes about the combination of photos and videos from a location or day into one post. Collages according to plans by Facebook will be available to iPhone users first and appear on Android next year.

Next year will definitely be interesting as these companies continue to roll out new functions to help make life easy for us all.

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