Facebook; an American online social media or social networking site, is also listed on the NASDAQ. You can imagine the brute force of the company by just looking at their revenue figures of $27.638 Billion (2016). Since 2004, gradually Facebook became one of the biggest name in the social networking platforms. It’s on everyone’s minds all the time. All they can think of is that what status should we upload, what profile picture we need to upload, what photos can shared with friend, or what to comment on a friend’s “In a Relationship” status update. Over the years, Facebook have kept their pace along with the society and its norms and values to become the face of our social interactions’ medium. It’s no longer the networking site just to upload a status or send a private message to your secret crush, rather it have grown over the years to become one of the most widely used forum to raise a social issue or use it to spread a social awareness message. Not just that, also if you’re looking to start up your own business and your low on budget, Facebook can be just the thing for you. Create your own page, start by posting stuff, and voila you’re good to go. While we’re on the subject of using Facebook for other various matters, Facebook itself is not left behind in all the market or society’s trends changing dynamically.
Talking about keeping up with the society, Facebook continuously needs to evolve itself around the world’s trends and strengthen their own inner principles in their organization. To keep up with the changing environment, it needs to be creative and yet, meaningful. Because, there’s no future of being a creative and lame. That way you’ll end up in the long list of social networking sites such as Orkut or Msn Messenger. But Facebook is smart enough to realize the market vacuums and fill in the gaps which are necessary to be filled. If not by Facebook, someone else will come to fill in those vacuums.
So, how does the Facebook do it? One such example is to ‘Make a Temporary Facebook Profile Picture’. What is a temporary Facebook profile picture if you may ask? Temporary Facebook Profile Picture is just your regular Display Picture with an addition of a filter or an effect that will temporarily change your picture for a brief period of time or for a set duration. If you don’t want to add a filter or an effect to your existing display picture, you can also upload a picture of your choice and make it a temporary Facebook profile picture. In order to make it easier for the people to change their profile pictures in the light of various events such a social issue or supporting your home country in the world cup or even celebrate a new legislation being implemented by the Federal court, Facebook introduced this feature in 2015. The popularity escalated with high profile personalities or celebrities using this feature and now making a temporary Facebook profile picture is easier than ever.
How it all started?
Facebook began the testing of their new feature “Temporary Profile Picture” somewhere back at the start of 2015. This feature caught everyone’s attention when Facebook itself started promoting it saying stuff about temporary profile picture and why we should also try it. But it became a famous global phenomenon when the Supreme Court of USA ruled in favor of gay marriages, people from all over the world, race, gender, country, or culture came forward to support this ruling. People’s reactions and favor quickly took on the social networking sites by storm. People began commenting and sharing their views on the famous historical milestones in the fight for the equal human rights for everyone. Facebook quickly recognized the opportunity and introduced the feature. It became a thing on its own. Facebook gained from the opportunity and the people won by raising their voice on the individual basis. They could now change their profile picture in favor of the equal rights movements by making a temporary Facebook profile picture, specifically adding the rainbow effect to the existing profile picture to give it a supporting look for the LGBT community. On another occasion in 2015, after the November Paris Terrorist attacks, you can recall the people changing their profile pictures temporarily in favor of the French government and French people to show their gratitude and their condolences with them. On that point in time, people realized that that Facebook doesn’t always have to be just for fun social interaction site, it can also be a useful and meaningful medium to deliver your message to the world or the masses. It’s more than just well-shot selfies or Display Pictures, it can also be a leader in providing social justice.
Temporary Profile Picture Frame
After the introduction of temporary profile pictures in the 2015, Facebook also started making it easier to add different frames and filters to the existing or new profile pictures. Facebook constantly bring in their new updates and features to make their site and application more user-friendly and convenient. So, when the time is right and there’s a new political cause that you want to be a part of, then take out your hidden weapon of temporary Facebook profile picture and register your voice amongst others. Also, in no time you will have your original profile picture back.
Temporary Profile Picture or a Frame?
Well, there are two options from which you will have to make choice for your next chronicles of political cause. One, you can set a temporary profile picture. Second, you can add a frame to an existing profile picture or to a new one. First, let us look at the option number one:
- The steps are just as setting your new profile picture. So, go to your profile page.
- Scroll or hover around with your mouse on your picture.
- When you will be able to see some options, click on “Update Profile Picture”.
- You can either select from the options provided below or you can Upload Photo to choose from photos save do your device.
- Once uploaded, click on the option “Make Temporary”.
- Then, select the length of time that you wish it to be active.
- Finally, save your work by clicking on the “Save” button.
However, if you want to add a temporary frame to your profile picture, you can also do that by following the mentioned steps:
- Follow the steps of setting temporary profile picture from 1-3.
- Once, you’re done with that, click on the “Add Frame” button to start adding frames on your picture.
- Then, you can scroll through the many frame options provided by the Facebook. The list will be visible on the left hand side of the bar. Click one of the frame to view it or try it on your profile picture.
- If however, you don’t like what you see, go to the search bar, type in the keyword for which you’re looking something.
- A list of themes or frames will appear.
- Select the
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