#essay{:title        "Share Feelings on Facebook",       :date         #inst "2013-05-30",       :reading-time "1 min"}

Share Feelings on Facebook

2013-05-30 · 1 min read ·

Facebook now lets you post feelings or activities as status updates:

Update: Apparently this feature started rolling out in April.

Not even Google is this tapped into our collective consciousness to show more targeted ads.

Listening to Lazerhawk? You'll see an ad for the new Daft Punk album. Drinking a cider? You'll see an ad for Savanna. Powerful data.

Here's the UI flow:

Choose an activity

Facebook Feelings Options · click for true colour

Drill down into "eating"

Facebook Feelings Eating · click for true colour

Post your feelings as an update

Facebook feels are part of your status update. · click for true colour

Feels, bro. Feels.

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