Services like Pocket, Reading List in the Safari browser, and Instapaper have been giving us a place to safely store long reads and other interesting tidbits for from the Web for years now. But there are still plenty of people who don’t know about or use them. And a large cross section of those people are also likely Facebook users—you know, since 1.32 billion of us are).
Facebook’s new Save feature in the iOS app caters to this crowd. Here’s how to use it.
Save is pretty simple. When someone in your feed posts a link you’d like to revisit later, just click the Save button in the bottom right of the post or the drop down arrow in the upper right of a post (or the “…” on a Facebook page) and then select Save. To view or share something you’ve saved, you can click “Saved” in the lefthand column. Things that you saved are organized by category (links, places, music, books, movies, TV shows, and events), so you can access them by clicking one of those titles, or you can click “All” to see all the things you’ve saved. From there, you can tap Share to post it yourself.
You can also archive items by hovering over a link in your Saved items and clicking the x in the upper right. To delete something, first archive it, then select the Archives link at the top of the page and the “…” next to what you want to remove, then click Delete.
Unfortunately, Saved doesn’t work for everything: It works exclusively with Link posts. So if a friend posts a status update with a picture and a link to an article, you won’t be able to save it. Annoying, we know.
For now, saved items are private unless you decide to share them, but considering this is Facebook we’re talking about, it’s likely that Saved could become viewable to your friends at some point in the future.
I plan to use this feature along the lines of the way I do Favorites on Twitter. I’ll save things that I want to reference in the future, but perhaps don’t necessarily want to re-share to all of my friends and followers. Unlike some other bookmarking services, Facebook doesn’t offer any differentiation between links that you’ve clicked on or read, and those you haven’t.
Credit: http://www.wired.com/2014/07/facebook-save-feature/
