Facebook seems to be particularly trying to compete with YouTube. Last year reports that video views have reached 4 billions a day, and a revenue distribution system for content creators has already begun.
Let's also mention the choice of autoplay in your Newsfeed.
These tweaks show us that Facebook is preparing to quietly compete with Google's YouTube.
If the way Facebok uses, you have not moved your curiosity yet, you will understand from today that the popular social network has as a primary goal to compete with Youtube.
When you try to paste a YouTube url into a page, you will see a small prenotice below the post box encourages you to upload the video to Facebook instead of viewing it from YouTube.
The following photo is by Scott Ayres and was published by TNW. Introduces Facebok's new behavior.
For the moment you will not see this picture in Greece, but get ready to receive it soon.
The social network is reportedly circulating a large upgrade for the video uploader, a must if he wants to become a serious video distribution player. So from today he has added for apactivation embedding the videos in others websites, added categories and more, just like YouTube.
But unlike YouTube, Facebok does not provide a copyright recognition tool that can automatically detect stolen videos. So for owners it should be very difficult if complaints start and come and someone has uploaded 1000 videos that they have to search one by one.