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hey guys Astro TechnoBuffalo here checking out Facebook paper this is a new app that Facebook has just released and they're kind of hoping that you're gonna replace your regular Facebook app with it but can you replace your regular Facebook app with it we're gonna find out in this video so stay tuned okay so we have our Facebook paper app installed it is in the App Store it's free you can go download it but unfortunately if you're using Android you're not going to be able to use fake paper right now because it's not available and it's also us only so us iOS users you can go get it right now in the App Store but it is a very small team and this is an experimental app that Facebook is kind of hoping will sort of grow into something bigger so over time I'm sure we'll see paper available on other platforms as it becomes more successful so let's take a look ok so this is the layout of Facebook paper as you can see it's very magazine like you might be reminded of maybe Flipboard or other magazine s caps that you use to access things like RSS feeds this is actually my friend feed so this is my news feed it says Facebook right here and these are the different posts from properties that I like so you can see I have a Disney one in there and of course TechnoBuffalo is all over my newsfeed which is cool and if I'm really into a story I can just tap on it and it will bring that right up and then if I want to see the actual story I can go ahead and open it so you can see as a little card animation opening up and it will take me right to the actual TechnoBuffalo mobile site and we can read more about Facebook paper it being available for iOS and then all you have to do is just slide down to close that card and slide down again to go back to your newsfeed you can go through and if you look at things like pictures you'll notice maybe there's a little bit of something cut off here actually if you just move to the side you can see the rest of the pictures and for anything that is landscape it's gonna be a lot easier for you to see what's going on in the picture and it's kind of a cool effect but not necessarily anything that's gonna you know make you go download it immediately now if I swipe over you can see now I have headlines at a Facebook here and these are different topics that I've chosen to sort of populate inside Facebook paper so here's headlines I have tech I also have pop life well-lived I have cute so if we want to see adorable animal pictures this poor little dog has an ouch apparently I can do that I can switch over to lol which is a lot of comedy stuff and I have things for home so that's where it stops if I want to actually add more things or if I want to post a status update to Facebook I just swipe down and you can see here's my profile I can create a post here and it's very much like the regular Facebook app you can choose who it's visible to in your newsfeed you can add pictures you can add your location anything like that but if I want to go back and edit my sections I can do that so here's all the different sections you can add you do have a limit you can't add every single section that is available to you so here's your newsfeed you have headlines tech everything that I mentioned before but let's say I want to add creators so all I have to do is just take this and drag it right up here if I want to add more you can see I can do that and it'll actually tell me your paper is full so you can see now it's saying no you can't quite add that we're just gonna put it back down here so if I said whoops I didn't actually want to add flavor I want to add score which is the sports section I can do that so now I just hit done and you go right back to your news feed and then you can swipe over to the section you just added so there's score where to go check out this story on on poor Peyton Manning because he didn't have a very great day yesterday but yeah so this is this is a little bit of Facebook paper you're probably wondering maybe where can you refresh your stories actually that's something that Facebook paper does for you the cards will actually sort of deal themselves to you as things get pushed to these content creators RSS feeds which is very interesting and I'll show you a picture that I thought was really cool that was sort of easier to sort of check out and use that that tilts a little more so you can see now you can see this whole landscape picture it's just kind of neat in this beetle story which is kind of fun but it's very very simple you've probably also noticed as I've been swiping through here there aren't any ads and that's something that is happening in Facebook paper for now it's not exactly it's not exactly 100% on whether or not they're gonna add ads to Facebook paper I would imagine it's a little bit of a catch-22 if you are you know if this happens up becoming very popular it's probably going to get ads but if it ends up not being very popular it may stay ad free and get no support so again kind of a catch-22 there but overall a really beautifully created app and something that we're really looking forward to seeing how it evolves in the coming months so that's it for Facebook paper there's a short tour little hands-on of this sort of media heavy magazine like format layout for your Facebook app now as to whether or not you can use this as your main Facebook app you guys are gonna have to figure that out for yourself but until the next video I'm Ashley Scavo TechnoBuffalo and we'll see you in the next one hey guys thanks for watching if you are dying to get more of the latest and greatest tech you should definitely subscribe to our youtube channel by clicking on this giant magical subscribe button right beneath me or you can check out some other videos by clicking right over here