You Can Soon Send Facebook Memes Directly To Your Friend's Instagram DM — Here's What We Know
Meta Platforms Inc.'s (NASDAQ: META) Facebook is apparently working on making private sharing between friends more accessible.
What Happened: On Thursday, social media commentator Matt Navarra took to Twitter to share an update stating that Facebook is “leaning into private sharing with friends.”
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Navarra's post was accompanied by a screenshot that showed an additional button on a meme post — "Send in Instagram Direct Message."
Facebook leaning into private sharing with friends
This button on a meme post pic.twitter.com/acpVXI2XtZ
— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) January 4, 2023
Facebook did not immediately respond to Benzinga’s request for comments.
Why It’s Important: Facebook already allows users to share a post/story with friends via Messenger and WhatsApp. Now, it appears that Facebook is working to improve accessibility with Instagram as well.
A few days ago, it was reported that Instagram has started providing users options to add pronouns to their profiles in different languages, including Spanish, Portuguese and French.
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