Facebook Celebrates 'Friends Day' with New Awards and Filters

Facebook may have copped a lot of flak over the past year and a half for allowing fake news and politically-motivated propaganda masquerading equally news to proliferate on its platform, but the site still remains the place where friends and family connect to share their stories of hope and despair with each other. That existence the example, the globe's largest social networking platform observes 'Friends Twenty-four hour period' every year on February quaternary – the day the site was founded by Mark Zuckerburg back in 2004.

This year, the company is celebrating the day by introducing a prepare of features for its users as part of its fun and quirky 'Friends Awards' segment that will be visible at the top of your news feed. It will also contain a personalized 'awards video' that's apparently meant to admit your friends for the roles they have played in your life. Considering, every bit Facebook points out in its press release, "Each friend makes our life a niggling meliorate. Show them a footling love today". As can be seen from the epitome below, the post itself reads, "Happy Friends Day, (your proper name)! Today is about celebrating friends and the means they brand life great. We thought yous might savour sending some awards to show your friends what they mean to y'all".

Meanwhile, the 'awards' are handed out in a number of categories that include 'The friend who posts the best stuff' (based on the number of times you lot've liked their posts) , 'The friend who gives a lot of love' (number of times they take used love emoji on your posts), 'Sports Buddy' (number of sports pages liked mutually), 'Photograph-Op Friend' (tagged in near number of photos together) and 'Big Liker' (the one who liked your posts the nigh).

Do note that the winners are pre-decided by Facebook and you won't exist able to actually decide who wins the honour, but you may cull not to share the results publicly if you don't feel like doing so. You can, however, take the time to create your own slideshow with awards titled 'Bestie', 'Nifty Listener', 'Knows How To Make Me Express joy', 'Makes Whatever Time A Good Time', 'Always Has My Back', 'Big Hearted', etc.

Facebook also introduced three new Camera filters on the occasion (as seen in the to a higher place image), and too released 5 videos highlighting "five remarkable friendships from around the world".