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Facebook Live Now Offers Built-In Screen Sharing Feature

Tuesday October 17, 2017 6:35 PM PDT by Juli Clover

Facebook Live, the feature that allows Facebook users to broadcast live video to followers and friends, was today updated with support for screen sharing.

As noticed by The Next Web, there's now a button for sharing your computer screen when broadcasting on Facebook Live.

Image via The Next Web

Using the screen sharing feature requires a Facebook Screen Sharing browser extension to be installed in the Chrome browser.

Facebook's built-in screen sharing feature lets users decide what to share based on application, with an option available to stream specific browser tabs.

Screen sharing was previously available in Facebook Live, but it required third-party Open Broadcaster Software to use, and it was more complicated to get running than Facebook's new solution.

Tag: Facebook

Top Rated Comments

Vasilioskn

109 months ago

Deleted Facebook last year and never going back to that cesspool

Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)

Kaibelf

109 months ago

Mark my words, this feature will end up providing us all with some hilarious entertainment. I can’t wait for the first public figure to broadcast while not realizing his “adult site” video is playing in another visible window.

Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)

farewelwilliams

109 months ago

so they can record things outside the browser

Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)

TMRJIJ

109 months ago

Yea.. I’m not installing that crap

Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)

CarpalMac

109 months ago

Deleted Facebook last year and never going back to that cesspool

It is odd how Google gets savaged for their business model on MR however Facebook always seems to get a pass. Especially odd when considering their opaque approach to data mining and privacy. Hey-ho..

Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)

riverfreak

109 months ago

I’m on Facebook live right now! You can watch me browse Macrumors and troll newbs!

Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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