Facebook’s Save feature lets you store links for later. Screenshot: WIRED
Services like Pocket, Reading List in the Safari browser, and Instapaper have
been giving us a place to safely store long reads and other interesting
tidbits for from the Web for years now. But there are still plenty of
people who don’t know about or use them. And a large cross section of
those people are also likely Facebook users—you know, since 1.32 billion of us are).
Facebook’s new Save feature in the iOS app caters to this crowd. Here’s how to use it.
Save is pretty simple. When someone in your feed posts a link you’d like
to revisit later, just click the Save button in the bottom right of the
post or the drop down arrow in the upper right of a post (or the “…” on
a Facebook page) and then select Save. To view or share something
you’ve saved, you can click “Saved” in the lefthand column. Things that
you saved are organized by category (links, places, music, books,
movies, TV shows, and events), so you can access them by clicking one of
those titles, or you can click “All” to see all the things you’ve
saved. From there, you can tap Share to post it yourself.
You can also archive items by hovering over a link in your Saved items
and clicking the x in the upper right. To delete something, first
archive it, then select the Archives link at the top of the page and the
“…” next to what you want to remove, then click Delete.
Unfortunately, Saved doesn’t work for everything: It works exclusively
with Link posts. So if a friend posts a status update with a picture and
a link to an article, you won’t be able to save it. Annoying, we know.
For now, saved items are private unless you decide to share them, but
considering this is Facebook we’re talking about, it’s likely that Saved
could become viewable to your friends at some point in the future.
I plan to use this feature along the lines of the way I do Favorites on
Twitter. I’ll save things that I want to reference in the future, but
perhaps don’t necessarily want to re-share to all of my friends and
followers. Unlike some other bookmarking services, Facebook doesn’t
offer any differentiation between links that you’ve clicked on or read,
and those you haven’t.
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