Does Facebook Notify When You Screen Record A Story?
Does Facebook Notify When You Screen Record A Story?
Facebook has been following in the footsteps of Instagram and Snapchat for the past few years. In order to stay relevant, and because Facebook is an older app with an older population of users, they have added a story feature, as well. Just like Instagram and Snapchat stories, these Facebook stories are pictures you can broadcast to your friends from their timeline. It is a good way to give a live update of what you are up to, since making statuses has become a more serious undertaking. But does Facebook notify when you screen record a story or when you screenshot a story? Read on to find out.
Does Facebook Notify When You Screenshot A Story?
Since we all strive for privacy in our social media presences, here is some good news for your screenshotting habits. Unlike Snapchat, but like Instagram, Facebook does not notify when you screenshot a story. So go ahead and screenshot all you like! Nobody will ever know if you don't want them to! For now at least. We can only assume that Facebook will want to follow in Snapchat's footsteps, so if they do introduce a screenshot on stories notification, we will let you know.
But, what about screen recording? Does Facebook notify a person if you screen record their story?
Does Facebook Notify When You Screen Record A Story
While there is no notification feature for screen recording on Facebook, the app seems to be one step ahead of Snapchat and Instagram here! Although you cannot see a screenshot of a story, Facebook has integrated iOS's new screen recording into their app itself. On Facebook, you can screen record and screen broadcast what you are seeing in your app.
However, be careful because Facebook has an iron-clad privacy policy. You know, that long terms and conditions page you agreed to but didn't read when you joined Facebook? It states ownership rights for everything on Facebook, so you be careful what you screen record and broadcast from your account! [Facebook claims ownership]https://medium.com/mobile-tech-news/beware-of-the-new-ios-11-screen-recording-function-and-facebook-cf3787e88115) over a lot of what happens on their timeline, so you could be in trouble for reposting.