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what we'll get more people to use Facebook live how about photo filters I'm Bridget Carey this is your cnet update it's a busy day for social media news so let's start with changes at Facebook Facebook's live streaming videos are getting new features to live in a broadcast so to speak now you can tap on those reaction emojis while watching a video and whenever someone taps an icon it will float by on the screen in real time for the broadcaster see it's just like those hearts on Twitter's periscope video app but Facebook's icons bounce across and they could be a combo of hearts thumbs ups and faces and in an attempt to copy some of that Instagram and snapchat magic you could also add color filters to videos such as a black and white filter in the future if they also want to let you write on the video now live videos from your phone are a growing trend but you know what else is hot right now encryption and facebook-owned whatsapp is getting lots of buzz for adding more end-to-end encryption to messages which prevents the company or any other agency from seeing your chats whatsapp did have high level encryption for a while now for text messages but it just expanded the protections to more areas like group messages and photo messages even as government agencies are putting pressure on tech companies to loosen encryption for data collection and investigations you have whatsapp and others pushing encryption as an important feature to win over consumers security is a selling point right now end-to-end email encryption is messy for people to do on their own so if you want to chat securely you'll have to turn to a phone app if you're interested in others you want to check out the signal app that also encrypts phone calls meanwhile at Twitter there's a new button on the mobile app that lets you easily share someone's tweet in a direct message chat this is part of Twitter's mission to grow as a private messaging tool and for you social crafters out there the marketplace etsy is starting a new service for sellers it's called pattern by Etsy and those that make things like jewelry or furniture can pay fifteen dollars a month to have their own websites to show off their work online shopaholic should be pleased to learn that amazon prime free same-day delivery service is expanding to 11 more cities in the US the same day deliveries of amazon prime now began last year in may you have to shop on a prime now app to get the option but bloomberg reports it could come to the main amazon website next month that's all for this tech news roundup but you can find us on all the socialist I'm actually Facebook liveing right now whoo look at that if you want to see a behind-the-scenes look at this episode just find me on Facebook from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey