With Facebook’s ongoing quest to combine every other social network’s features under its own blue slab, it appears Facebook is now adding a “Professional Skills” section where users can, well, boast about the things they’re good at getting paid to do.
Currently in testing, the feature is reminiscent of LinkedIn’s Skills section where users can select an expert field, skill, or interest and have all this information encompassed under their Facebook profile’s About tab. The primary difference between Facebook and LinkedIn, however, is that with Facebook’s skill tab, you can click the skill to search for other people who’ve listed similar expertise. At the moment, LinkedIn does not let users find other job candidates with similar skill sets, though there is an ironically more social aspect since friends and colleagues can endorse you for whatever it is you say you’re good at.
That isn’t to say that LinkedIn hasn’t been, say, inspired by Facebook’s features either. It also borrowed the infamous “Like” system so users can approve of posts and updates made by friends or companies they are following.
From the screencap of Facebook’s Professional Skills tab, you can add virtually any skill under the sun as long as there’s a page dedicated to it. We’re already counting the goofballs in our friends list who will undoubtedly use this feature to list hysterical “skills” they possess, like Eating or Getting Crunk.
This isn’t the first move Facebook’s made to make the social network more job-friendly. Its constant redesigns are clearly a part of a larger attempt to make the initial landing page look like a resume. Just last year, it also partnered with several employment services to launch a job search app designed to connect users to available positions worldwide.
There is no set date of when this feature will become available, but just in case you do use Facebook for more than party photos and birthday notifications, it couldn’t hurt to try and make yourself look awesome professionally as well.
You just opened X and started typing your thoughts. Imagine the jump scare when a hand suddenly pops up on your screen, pointing at the promote button. It doesn’t say a word and simply points. For a growing number of X users, this isn’t a made-up scenario but something they have been seeing since yesterday, and very few of them are amused.
Most of us have learned to tune out the usual in-app upsells, whether it’s a glowing upgrade banner or a pop-up about a premium plan. A floating hand hovering over your draft is much harder to ignore, and that’s probably the whole point.
Scroll through any app for five minutes, and you’ll find someone maxxing something. Their skin, their sleep, their protein intake, even their Friday night on the couch. That little suffix has been everywhere this year, and now it has a trophy to show for it. In a recent announcement, Dictionary.com named maxxing its 2026 Word of the Year.
What are people actually doing when they’re maxxing?
Instagram is testing a new format for long-form videos called Features. It allows select creators to upload horizontal videos running up to 90 minutes long. Instagram has already tested the new format with creators in Brazil, and now, it's expanding to tens of thousands of creators across the US.
How will Instagram's new Features format work?