Facebook boosts snubbed Stories Camera with Live, GIF, & text sharing

Despite the tepid reception for Facebook Stories, the social network is doubling down on its full screen Camera feature. Today Facebook added the ability to go Live, shoot two-second GIFs, and share full-screen text posts on colored background from Facebook Camera, which lets you share to Facebook Stories, Direct messaging, and the traditional news feed.

The features give Facebook Camera near parity with Instagram’s Stories camera, and could make it more flexible and attractive to teens looking for ways to share visually.

We’ll have more details shortly