Facebook launches photo comments

The social network has kicked off the global rollout of a new feature for attaching photos in comment threads.

Facebook is now letting its 1.11 billion members react to their friends' status updates with photo comments.
The social network said Wednesday that it started the global release of the new feature, which lets people add photos to comment threads using a new "Attach a Photo" button. To start, photo comment uploads will be restricted to the Facebook Web site and mobile site, but members can view photo comments from Facebook's mobile applications, the company said.

 

Photo comments were developed at one of Facebook's famous hackathons. Facebook engineer Bob Baldwin, one of the developers behind the release, said that he was inspired to create the photo comments feature because, "sometimes showing a photo helps me tell a story much better than words alone."