Facebook is once again introducing another feature addition to their social networking site for testing. The feature could be seen as a spin-off of their earlier launched video streaming for celebrities. The social network site will now start rolling out the said feature for everyone in their flagship app starting today with a small test.

The social media's users will now be able to use a redesigned status menu where they can select the "live video" option. In the future, Facebook plans to bring this feature to all of their users. Like its earlier counterparts, the social network's streams will display the number of live viewers, names of their friends who are watching, and the real-time comments as they are written. These Facebook videos are saved to the user's timeline and will stay there until they chose to remove it.

The latest move coming from the social media shows the company's total acceptance of video and their eagerness to capture more than the real-time content that can derive so much global conversation. It might be a bit contradicting with Facebook's News Feed where the posts of each user's friends shared are based on each individual's susceptibility to engage with them.

Facebook's live broadcast, once open for public, would also generate a notification that only goes to a list of the user's close friends. The broadcast feature also has a subscribe button that once activated will let the social media alert you when a new broadcast is being made even if the user is not on the list of close friends originally informed about the broadcast.

Facebook Product Design Director, Julie Zhou, said that the normal users that wanted the live broadcast have different reasons from those public figures. For these users, it is more on inviting friends and families into their special moments. Consumers can use broadcast for events like birthday celebrations or reaching a mountain's summit.

Previously the live broadcast is a feature that is created to have a real-time immersive and authentic way to connect with the public figures that a user would like to know about. If a user happens to miss a live broadcast, they can watch the video from the public figure's page.

Facebook also added today a new way of sharing photo collages. For iPhone users, the app will start updating today to let them create collages that can mix photos and videos arrayed into grids, which is a first in history. Zhou explains that the reason for this redesigning is to make the collages feel more like narratives.

Due to this update, when a user shares a photo, they will see their recent pictures sorted out by the time and place they were taken. Additionally, using a few taps enables a user to select the photos they want to share, arrange them, give them a title, and then post them. The feature update which is now only available to iPhone users will be adapted to have an Android support by next year but they can still view the collages.