臉書推出全新應用 受衆羣僅爲在校學生

Facebook has launched a new social media app aimed at school teenagers.

近日，臉書公司開發了一款針對在校學生的新社交軟件。

Members of Lifestage, currently only available on Apple devices in the US, upload pictures and videos based around feelings, likes and dislikes. These are then turned into video profiles.

這款應用名爲Lifestage，目前只能在美國的蘋果設備上使用，用戶可以根據自己的心情和喜好發佈圖片和視頻。然後這些都會變成視頻資料。

All posts are public and there are no options to restrict viewing. The idea is to connect members of the same school, its creator said.

所有發佈的消息都是公開的，用戶並不能選擇觀看限制。該app的開發者表示，這個想法的目的就在於將同一個學校裏的學生聯繫起來。

One expert told the BBC the lack of privacy settings was a concern.

一位專家接受BBC採訪時表示，這種隱私設置的缺失是一個問題。

School members can view each other's profiles once the individual school has registered 20 members or more. Users aged more than 21 are only able to view their own profiles, reports the Tech Crunch website.

當某個學校已經有超過20個學生註冊之後，整個學校的學生就可以互相觀看彼此的資料。據Tech Crunch網站報道，超過21歲的用戶只能看他們自己的資料。

However the app warns that it cannot guarantee whether all its users are genuine. "We can't confirm that people who claim to go to a certain school actually go to that school. All videos you upload to your profile are fully public content," it says.

不過這款app也警告用戶，他們不能保證所有用戶都是真實的。警告中寫着：“我們不能確定聲稱自己上了某所學校的人真的去了那個學校。所有你上傳到你的資料裏的視頻都是完全對外公開的。”

Lifestage has no messaging functionality but users can display contact details from other sites such as Snapchat and Instagram.

Lifestage沒有發信息的功能，但是用戶可以曬出自己在別的網站的聯繫方式，比如Snapchat和Instagram。

According to statistics website Statista only 8% of Facebook's US users are aged 13-19. It has been designed by Facebook product manager Michael Sayman, who is 19 years old.

根據統計網站Statista的數據顯示，只有8%的臉書用戶年齡在13歲到19歲。這款app是由臉書的產品經理邁克爾·塞曼設計的，他也才19歲。

In a Facebook post he wrote that the app was based around the original social network's early days.

他在一條臉書狀態中寫道，這款app是基於社交網絡剛誕生時的初衷而設計的。

"Back in 2004, Facebook was all about 'who I am'. I could post my relationship status. I could share what my favourite music was. And it was all about expressing myself," he said.

他說：“回首2004年，臉書上的內容還只是關於'我是誰'，我可以發佈我的人際關係狀態。我可以分享我最喜歡的音樂。這一切都是在於表達我自己。”

"Today as Facebook has grown into so much more, we see the opportunity to explore that concept of 'who I am' once again, but for Generation Z in 2016."

“而到今天，臉書已經發展了太多，我們再一次看到了將'我是誰'的理念進行延伸的機會，但是這一次是爲了2016年的Z一代（指90後）。”