Facebook videos will all be reels now

Facebook again refers the “video” section of its application. This time, the tab formerly known as ““Who was also called”“will become” coils “. The change comes when the company says that all the videos on the social network will now be under the umbrella of” coils “, regardless of the duration of the clip or the way it was turned.

According to The change will simplify things for users and creators sharing video clips on the platform. Previously, users had to decide if they wanted a given video to be a “coil”, shorter clips which are recommended in the Facebook application, or a “video”, which also included live and longer content, as well as video publications only intended for friends. Now, this distinction will no longer have any importance.

While Reels was once explicitly intended for short -term forms of a minute or less, Meta gradually expanded the format. On Instagram, coils can now be up to long. On Facebook, there will be no upper limit over the duration of a “coil”. “You can create and share coils of any length or orientation, whether it is a quick vertical clip of 30 seconds or a horizontal episode in depth, 20 minutes,” Meta .

This change could end up being slightly confusing, because most people are used to “coils” being shorter vertical clips rather than “long episodes”. It is also particularly different from the operation of the video on Instagram, where the coils still have time constraints. This could also raise questions from the point of view of confidentiality, because rollers are generally public publications, while many Facebook users download a video they want to share with their existing friends (META says that it will encourage users to review their confidentiality parameters only once the change is deployed to ensure that their clips will only go to the planned public.)

Meta notes that the changes will be deployed slowly “in the coming months”, so people will have a little time to adapt to the new format.