Facebook Live for everyone - My first viewer impressions

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After Facebook launched its live video feature for everyone it's interesting to see how people are using it. A first impression...

The first time a noticed the new live feature was a few months ago when popular people were using it to communicate with their fans.

For example the Formula One vice world champion Nico Rosberg used it to have a Q&A with his followers which were using the comment section to ask their questions. I found it was a quite interesting way too reach a lot of people.

Basically a live stream is nothing new in the Internet, but an interesting feature for social media. YouTube also has this feature of course, but on Facebook it makes a difference - especially for usual people.

Many people don't have a YouTube channel and are just using it passively - it's more likely they have a Facebook account. So the audience is different and the kind of recorded videos are also different. More natural and uncut. You can see that especially when you take a look for who is using the live feature at the moment.

To do that you can now see 'Live map' listed under 'Apps' in Facebook. Following that you can see a world map with blue points. Every point means there is a live broadcast right now. I clicked on various points just to find out what people want to show to the world, here's an overview:

• A Korean girl singing Japanese songs but she only showed half of her face
• A Russian driving with his car
• two people in Alaska playing with a little snake in a bathtub
• pupil in Chile discussing in school class
• a band playing in a bar
• two guys sitting in the office working in California
• a DJ mixing music on his laptop in Portugal
• Greece girls listening to music
• a concert in Spain
• people using a Shisha at the Canaries
• a German girl eating cookies
• girls chilling and playing with their hair on Hawaii
• a guy walking through the streets of Melbourne
• a sunset on Tenerife with guitar music in the background
• people eating in Tokyo

And this could have been continued endlessly. So entirely different things, but it's surely interesting to follow - not everything, but it gave me a basic impression about this 'new way of watching videos'. I mean everyone can have 'his own TV station' to have a worldwide broadcast just by using a phone. And it's really easy to use.

It's an interesting development and there's way more to follow. Facebook will expand its features way more. I only need to say 'VR'...