Similar to BeReal: Messenger tests a feature to share photos of the moment

Goal is testing a feature in Messenger called Roll Call, which invites users to share content after receiving a notification through a group chat, a format very similar to the one that currently characterizes BeReal.

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BeReal is an application that urges users to improvise and stop looking for the perfect frame in their posts, with the aim of encouraging improvisation. To do this, it has a warning system and a limited time to share content.

Every day, all users receive a notification at a random time at the same time, which varies depending on the day and week. Once the platform has been accessed, it offers two minutes to take a photograph from two perspectives at the same time: that of the rear and front lens of the ‘smartphone’.

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Meta has taken this concept to introduce a new feature in Messenger called Roll Call, available in Messenger group chats and with which it currently works internally, as the company has confirmed to TechCrunch.

With this functionality, the technology company intends “help people share authentic moments with friends and family” and, in principle, it will be intended for sharing images and videos, as the social media consultant Matt Navarra, who has had access to Roll Call, has advanced.

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Navarra has commented through his Twitter profile that, unlike BeReal, which works with a notification system generated by the application itself, Roll Call will allow the users themselves to launch an announcement at any time of the day for the rest of the members of a group to share an image.

This notice, which reaches all chat participants, can include requests, such as “show me your food”. In this case, users will have a limited time to share their content with a countdown of, say, five minutes. Users will only be able to see each other’s photos when they have shared theirs.

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It should be remembered that Meta has already been inspired by this BeReal feature previously to bring it to Instagram, as the developer Alessandro Paluzz warned in August of last year. So the company confirmed to Engadget that it was also being tested as an “internal prototype”.

Source: Elcomercio

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