Do you know "Save Things For Later" feature in Facebook? / myLot

Malaysia

September 22, 2015 7:29pm CST

I just found out this feature, it might not be new, but I really love it. I have joined and followed many groups, mainly in homeschooling, parenting and craft making, in Facebook. There are always many new posts to check out, so I always just scrolled through my Facebook wall to look for some posts that I really want to read. But, sometimes the good articles are too long, I don't have time to read at the moment, and I'd like to save for later. I usually just open any shared article or webpage in a new tab, then bookmark the page or download the article for later. Sometimes I tend to open too many tabs on my computer or tablet, but some good messages in the Facebook post can't be saved. Just now I was trying to see if I can get the permanent link from the post itself, then I clicked on the arrow icon on the top right corner of the post, and found "Save Link". It saved my post, and all the saved things are kept in one page. I can just read them later when I have more time. Do you know about this feature? Do you like to use it?

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Bumedian

@Salamnda (476)

• United Kingdom

23 Sep 15

thats useful :) the thing is in many cases, when you check something to be read later, you forget about it, cos there is a huge flow of articles and information all around, that makes you pile up the links that will be red later but that later comes very slow, till you loose interest in it, what i do it i try my best to read what interests me right away so i dont lose the info , or sometimes i open it in another tab and leave it there so i can read it later, one thing i do use lately , is schedule the post to be posted later :) thank you

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Lee Ka

@kaka135 (14931)

• Malaysia

23 Sep 15

Yes, I agree with what you said. That's why I always keep the tabs opened, and close them until I read them. But, sometimes it takes me too long to read all of them. What do you mean by "schedule the post to be posted later"? Can we do that in Facebook?

Bumedian

@Salamnda (476)

• United Kingdom

23 Sep 15

@Salamnda and this is how you can do it in the page i already have 2 posts waiting, ( i am posting a invitation to smile every day at a specific time :) )

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Lee Ka

@kaka135 (14931)

• Malaysia

24 Sep 15

@Salamnda Thank you for sharing these. I didn't know we can actually write drafts and schedule our posts in Facebook. I thought this happens in blogs only.

Thanks! These are useful features.

Anna

@LadyDuck (472213)

• Switzerland

23 Sep 15

The feature also exists in YouTube and I think it is very useful.

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Lee Ka

@kaka135 (14931)

• Malaysia

24 Sep 15

I didn't know about it until yesterday. It seems it's been there for a year.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (472213)

• Switzerland

24 Sep 15

@kaka135 I do not remember when I noticed the feature, but surely many months ago.

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AnjaP

@Rollo1 (16679)

• Boston, Massachusetts

23 Sep 15

No, I haven't seen it. I don't usually save articles from Facebook, but if you share something, it stays on your timeline and you don't lose it.

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Lee Ka

@kaka135 (14931)

• Malaysia

24 Sep 15

I always like to read before I share, so I always take time to read. A friend just taught me there's a way to share on my on wall, and only ME can see it. I didn't think of this as well. But, it can make my timeline become too long if I have too many unread posts.

Dorothy

@Magnolia74 (67)

• Philippines

23 Sep 15

I have been using that feature for quite sometime but recently I've noticed that the save button is no longer there. I am again using my browser's bookmark when I need to save articles for later.

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Lee Ka

@kaka135 (14931)

• Malaysia

24 Sep 15

I didn't know about this feature. My Saved and Save Link buttons are both there. I am currently bookmarking the webpages as well.

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