#Facebook Video vs #YouTube Video find better one.

Live streams are now, mainstream. Live video has grown faster than most mediums, because it establishes a real-time connection and facilitates a conversation between the streamer and the audience. Nowadays, most social media platforms and video platforms allow you to stream live video. But, between the 2 major platforms, YouTube and Facebook, which one is actually the best for you to live stream to? On this blog post, we’ll talk about YouTube live vs. Facebook live. Here, you’ll find a side-by-side comparison between Facebook and YouTube, to help you decide where to focus your live streaming efforts as a brand or individual.

Regardless of the platform, you prefer, keep in mind that they are the 2 biggest platforms out there. If you want to build an online audience, it’s wise to have an online presence on both. You can share different content on each of them, but for live streaming events and intricate live videos, you can and should go live on both platforms at the same time. This way, you’ll be able to take advantage of each platform’s best qualities.

On the other hand, for more spontaneous live video content or a more specific type of content, you might be better off choosing one of the 2 platforms. As we’ll see below, Facebook has its own upsides and so does YouTube.

Side-by-side YouTube live vs. Facebook live Live Comparison

Facebook users vs. YouTube users & Viewing time

As far as active users go, Facebook has 1.9 billion per month and YouTube has “only” 1.3 billion. But, Facebook users are not there only for videos, they might be engaging with their friends, checking their news feed, reading articles, visiting pages and groups etc. Whereas, YouTube users are on the platform mostly to watch on-demand or live videos. That’s why, when it comes to video’s viewing time, YouTube is still ahead, but not by far.

Live Streaming – Technical comparison between Facebook Live and Youtube Live

When it comes to the technical side of the YouTube live vs. Facebook live comparison, the differences are more significant. The first thing you’ll notice is that Facebook’s settings for live video are much more limiting than on YouTube. While on YouTube live you can choose between a wide range of resolutions and bitrates, on Facebook you can’t go above 720p. Although 720p gives you a good video quality for live streaming, it’s not the best.

Based on the progress of live streaming and video content in general, it’s safe to say that things are going towards higher quality and longer videos. Which means Facebook needs to step up their game. Though, it’s understandable that YouTube has better video settings because it’s a video platform after all.

On both platforms, it’s possible to get stream keys which allow users to use other software for live streaming or tools and create more professional live streams. They also allow users to stream to their own website or anywhere with the embed link. To either Facebook or YouTube, you can stream live videos from your mobile phone, which is essential for spontaneous live streams on the go.

Another crucial difference between YouTube live vs. Facebook live is the monetization process. YouTube makes it easier for content creators to get paid when live streaming, through ads, sponsors and fans’ support (super chats). Although not every channel is eligible for it. If your goal is to generate a revenue with your live streams, then, YouTube might be a better option. On Facebook, you can also have ads and shared revenue, but it’s not so simple.

YouTube live vs. Facebook live

Best Live Streaming Platform Overall – YouTube live vs. Facebook live

Considering all tools and settings, YouTube is a more professional platform for live streaming. It has video editing and managing tools, which are important if you want to consistently create video content.  As mentioned before, YouTube is a platform dedicated to video, and users go there to find videos of their interest. More than that, when someone subscribes to your channel, it means they want to see your videos. While people that follow your page on Facebook, aren’t necessarily there for your videos.

On top of all the settings options, YouTube videos are easily indexed by search engines, which means your videos are “searchable”. Even after your live video is over, people can find it on Google when searching for something related. While Facebook content is mostly discoverable within the platform itself, and sometimes, not even. Facebook videos rarely show up on the first page of google searches, unless the search has the term Facebook in it.  

A video on YouTube has a longer lifespan because YouTube prioritizes view time and relevance. So, even after a while, your video can show up as suggestions for viewers. Whereas Facebook content is short-lived, because Facebook will always show the latest posts. The discoverability of videos on YouTube is one of their main advantages, but when it comes to the actual live video both platforms will favorite live video. Live video has the upper hand and will show up first on news feeds and searches.

So, why use Facebook live?

Facebook also has its advantages, since it’s THE most popular social media platform in the world. Chances are, you already have followers on Facebook as a business or individual, and you can connect with this audience through live video. Whereas, if you decide to start a channel on YouTube, you’ll start with 0 followers.

On Facebook, you can leverage the audience you already have and engage with them. If they like your live videos, they might share it with their friends, friends or friends and so on. It’s easier to share things on the same platform. For example, when you’re live on Facebook, people can share it on the same platform and others will also watch it there. On YouTube, they would have to share it to other platforms. Then, their friends would have to click on it and go back to YouTube.

Other Facebook Live advantages over YouTube

Another great advantage of Facebook live vs YouTube live is the notification system. While Facebook sends out multiple notifications to your followers, YouTube will send an email and maybe push notifications in the app. When you schedule a live stream, Facebook will notify your followers 1 hour before, 20 minutes before and 1 minute before you go live.

On Facebook, is also easy for your audience to engage with you or your brand and they can even use the “Reactions” instead of just liking the video. What’s more, you can be really specific when it comes to audience segmentation. So, you can choose who you want to share that live video with, which will also increase engagement if you target the right audience.

Last but not least, Facebook has a Facebook Live Map which is a really cool feature. It shows you all the live streams happening on Facebook around the world. You can also see how many people are watching each of them and where they are watching from.

As we can see, each platform has its own upsides and it can be hard to choose between a YouTube live vs. Facebook live session. The decision has to come down to your goals with your live stream. In other words, if your goal is monetization, YouTube will probably be the best option. On the other hand, if you want to reach and engage your existing audience, a Facebook live will help you out more. You can always go live on multiple platforms if you feel it’s going to be to your benefit.

In Summary

as per my personal opinion Facebook servers are slow to stream videos but YouTube is faster, so i recommend to see a video on YouTube if f that video is available on both platforms.

As Facebook loses popularity, check which other rival apps are becoming teenagers’ new favorites

Three years ago, Facebook was the dominant social media site among U.S. teens, visited by 71 percent of people in that magic, trendsetting demographic. Now only 51 percent of kids ages 13-17 use Facebook, according to Pew Research Center.

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Three years ago, Facebook was the dominant social media site among U.S. teens, visited by 71 percent of people in that magic, trendsetting demographic. Not anymore. Now only 51 percent of kids ages 13-17 use Facebook, according to Pew Research Center. The world’s largest social network has finally been eclipsed in popularity by YouTube, Snapchat and Facebook Inc.-owned Instagram. “The social media environment today revolves less around a single platform than it did three years ago,” the researchers wrote in a survey published on Thursday.
Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube is the most popular, used by 85 percent of teens, according to Pew. The U.S. is by far Facebook’s most lucrative advertising market, where it makes a staggering $23.59 in quarterly revenue per user. But that doesn’t mean growth can continue forever. The company said in its most recent earnings call that it’s effectively saturated the market in the U.S. and Canada, counting 185 million users in those two countries combined. The study demonstrates how difficult it may be to keep up that level of dominance, and how important the 2012 Instagram acquisition has been for Facebook’s future.
Facebook didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Instagram is slightly more popular than Snapchat overall, Pew said, with 72 percent of respondents saying they use the photo-sharing app, compared with Snapchat’s 69 percent. But Snap Inc. is holding its own, despite Instagram’s frequent parroting of its features. About one-third of the survey’s respondents said they visit Snapchat and YouTube most often, while 15 percent said Instagram is their most frequent destination.
Meanwhile, only 10 percent of teens said Facebook is their most-used online platform. The Pew analysis was based on a survey of 1,058 parents who have a teenager from 13 to 17, as well as interviews with 743 teens themselves. Interviews were conducted online and by telephone from March 7 to April 10. Pew noted that the biggest change since its last teen survey, besides Facebook’s fall from dominance, was just how ubiquitous smartphones have become among young people. Ninety-five percent of teens own a smartphone or have access to one, and 45 percent said they’re online “on a near-constant basis.” So in some ways, all the apps are winners.

Facebook Records Data Of All Your Calls And Text Messages; Makes It Difficult For Users To Delete Account: Report

While deleting their Facebook accounts in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, many Facebook users were surprised to discover that the social media behemoth stores far more information than what they ever expected. Tens of thousands of people across the world have started deleting their Facebook accounts over privacy issues. Many leading tech industry pioneers have also slammed Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg, who admitted last week that the Facebook scandal over privacy flaws was "a major breach of trust". In fact #DeleteFacebook has remained one of the top trends across social media platforms.

Users who logged in to Facebook to delete their profiles after the privacy scandal discovered that Facebook stores data and complete logs of all incoming and outgoing calls from a users phone as well as store data of all SMS messages, according to a report in The Guardian.

#DeleteFacebook, the movement urging people to shut their Facebook accounts over breach of privacy, started after it was revealed that Facebook had secretly shared the personal information of 50 million users, without their explicit consent, with a Cambridge psychologist. That data later ended up in the hands of the election consultancy Cambridge Analytica, which even has an India link. Though both BJP and Congress have denied links to Cambridge Analytica, records show otherwise.

According to a report in The Guardian, Facebook has made it difficult for users to Delete their Account, and instead pushes them only towards "deactivation" of their account, which eventually leaves all their personal information and data on Facebook's servers forever.

In its response, Facebook said, "The most important part of apps and services that help you make connections is to make it easy to find the people you want to connect with. So, the first time you sign in on your phone to a messaging or social app, it's a widely used practice to begin by uploading your phone contacts," The Guardian quoted a statement released by Facebook's spokesperson.

"Contact uploading is optional. People are expressly asked if they want to give permission to upload their contacts from their phone - it's explained right there in the apps when you get started. People can delete previously uploaded information at any time and can (later) find all the information available to them in their account and activity log from our Download Your Information tool," the statement adds.

The Guardian further reported that 'Messenger for Android' asks for permissions to read all call and SMS logs for a similar purpose. The company notes that users can stop continuously uploading contacts and delete all their previously uploaded contacts by turning off the continuous uploading setting in the Messenger app.Permanent Deleting a Facebook Account will also result in contacts no longer being uploaded, and all previously uploaded contacts being deleted from the users profile, but might remain on Facebook servers.

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WhatsApp vs Google Duo vs Facebook Messenger: The best video calling app in India

We take a look at the features that are offered by WhatsApp, Google Duo, and Facebook Messenger and keep them side by side to let you know if the app is worth your time.

WhatsApp, Google Duo, or Facebook Messenger – which is the best app for video calling?

With the boom in the Internet scene of India, people began switching to video calls to just simply have a casual talk or discuss something important. The voice calls are still a first choice for many and is hardly to be replaced by video calls, but that doesn’t mean video calls are a dud. There are several apps that allow video conferencing and calls, along with additional features that come handy as move along to use them more frequently. The most popular apps in India that come with video calling feature are WhatsApp, Google Duo, and Facebook Messenger.
We take a look at the features that are offered by WhatsApp, Google Duo, and Facebook Messenger and keep them side by side to let you know if the app is worth your time. The prime focus of the three apps is to simplify the way you talk to your friends and relatives via voice and video calls. While voice calls are equally important, they are usually preferred via the cellular networks rather than VoIP calls. We have not considered the promptness of the apps as this is something that largely depends on the Internet connection.

WhatsApp Messenger

WhatsApp is undoubtedly the most popular messaging app with over 200 million monthly active users in India. The Facebook-owned app introduced the video calling feature in 2016. The users welcomed this feature to a great extent, so much so that it last year said that Indians made 50 million minutes of video calls daily on the platform. WhatsApp has since been making several improvements to make the video calling service better.
The WhatsApp video calls can be initiated to a contact by either jumping to the contact list or to a recent chat on the chat screen. The users are required to tap on the video calling icon to begin the video calling feature. The moment it starts ringing, you can see yourself on the screen with a black overlay, in addition to the profile picture of the person who you’re calling. Now, when your call is answered, you will begin seeing additional buttons on the call screen.
You can switch the cameras between the front and rear – the video being captured by your camera will be at the bottom right in a small rectangular widget that can be tapped to make fullscreen. You also see mute button, and a disable video call button, in addition to the end call button. In case you’re on a voice call on WhatsApp, you will now be able to switch to a video call by tapping a button in the call interface in the latest WhatsApp version for Android and iOS.

Google Duo

Google has several video calling apps such as Hangouts, however at the I/O conference in 2016, Google realised to focus more on messaging and calling apps. It launched the Google Allo and Google Duo apps at the conference. Google has been bullish about the Google Duo app in the Indian market. It even began offering the people who didn’t use Google Duo a glimpse of how it works along with a download button. Google Duo is comparatively simpler than WhatsApp since it doesn’t support textual messaging. It comes with voice and video calls where the latter is what it is primarily known for.
The Google Duo has an interesting feature called Knock Knock that lets the person who you are calling see your video before the call is answered. However, you won’t be able to see their video unless the call is answered. The Knock Knock feature can be turned off in case you don’t want yourself to be seen before your call is answered on the other side. The Google Duo app was recently update to bring design changes including a fresh contact list and a recent list. You can go the contacts list where you will find the people in your contacts who use Duo. By tapping on their names, you initiate the call. There is also a high quality mode that will improve the video quality while consuming more data. This feature can too be turned off.

Facebook Messenger

Facebook Messenger was initially launched as one of the suite of apps from the social media giant. However later, Messenger was considered more like a standalone app and as a result, Facebook made Messenger independent of your Facebook profile. While the option to use Messenger with your Facebook account is still available, you can alternatively sign up with just your mobile number without having to create a Facebook profile if you don’t wish to.
Facebook Messenger has a lot more features than WhatsApp and Google Duo. It comes with stickers, games, automated responses from brand pages, and chatbots. Major companies including Apple and Spotify currently feature their chatbots inside Messenger to facilitate people who use their services such as Apple Music and Spotify playlist sharing. The video calling feature works similar to the one on WhatsApp. You go to a chat and just tap on the video calling option at the top. Additionally, there is a separate tab where all your voice and video calls are saved, along with a new call button, on tapping which will open the contact list from where you can choose the contact you want to call.
Moreover, you can even start a group call with more than one contacts. On the calls tab, there is an option to start group call, tap on it and select the contacts you want to call. The call interface of Messenger is better than WhatsApp and Google Duo. the video call screen has mute, video chat off and end call option. In addition, you see two more options on the top – on the right corner is the chat icon while on the left is the camera switch button. Tapping on chat icon will bring you the chat screen while your video call is still running in a Picture-in-Picture (PiP) mode. You can even put on AR stickers and masks while on the call, which is currently not supported on WhatsApp and Google Duo.
Well, that’s all about the video calling feature of WhatsApp, Google Duo, and Facebook Messenger. While the main purpose of video calling is to look at the person you’re calling, some additional features just bring about more fun and are good to toy with. If you know any other good features that we might have missed out in this list, let us know in the comments section below.

Facebook Has Invented an Entirely New Unit of Time

We don't have the time to dig into all the different ways someone could measure time. Generally, we structure our lives around years, months, days, hours ... you know, the big ones. The easy ones. But time measurements can get as nitty gritty as you need them to. In Facebook's case, the company needed a unit of time that just wasn't there. So they invented an entirely new one.

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Net Flick

Allow us to introduce you to the "flick," the new unit of time developed by a Facebook engineer. Chances are, you won't be measuring how long you've been on the treadmill or how long to cook your turkey in flicks. But for a select group, the new unit could become quite helpful. Initially created by Christopher Horvath in late 2016 and launched by Facebook Open Source in January 2018, the flick is equal to precisely one 705,600,000th of a second. It's just a tad longer than a nanosecond, but still shorter than a microsecond. Finally, right?

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Like we said, understanding the flick probably won't impact your daily life. But here's a hint as to how this little sliver of a second could be helpful for some. Here are some numbers into which 1/705,600,000 divides evenly: 1/8, 1/16, 1/22.05, 1/24, 1/25, 1/30, 1/32, 1/44.1, 1/48, 1/50, 1/60, 1/90, 1/100, 1/120.

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Still confused?
All of these numbers are also frame rates or frequencies involved in displaying movies, music, and other media. Working any of those figures out into decimals yields a nasty, often neverending line of digits. The flick is here to clean it up. For example, 1/24th of a second is 29,400,000 flicks. If we were to try to measure that fraction of a second as a decimal, it would be 0.0416666666666666... Ew.

Nice and Precise

To put it into another context, imagine baking a cake, but all the ingredients come in strange ratios and confusing fractions of fractions. Then, one day, you're given a recipe that calls for just one pinch of this, two scoops of this. Not only does the flick simplify the numbers that media engineers work with, it will improve accuracy too. In the cake example, these round units would give you a more delicious cake because the measurements are spot-on with no guesswork. When long-running decimals get chopped off and rounded into a workable number, who knows what kind of valuable stuff is getting left off or ever-so-slightly skewed. That misalignment in precision could stack up over time to lead to some hairy problems, especially on team collaborations.

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Facebook's concern here isn't necessarily with simplifying streaming video or playing music. The flick was developed more specifically by Facebook's Oculus team, showing that the company is still betting big on virtual reality. (Facebook bought Oculus for $2 billion in 2004.) If this is something that could help you, you can download the flick's format and code at GitHub.

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Facebook Open Source

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We've launched Flicks, a unit of time, slightly larger than a nanosecond that exactly subdivides media frame rates and sampling frequencies. https://github.com/OculusVR/Flicks 

1:59 AM - Jan 23, 2018

OculusVR/Flicks

A unit of time defined in C++. Contribute to Flicks development by creating an account on GitHub.

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