Facebook set to introduce Snapchat-style filters which make you better looking in REAL TIME
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The digital age has thrown up all sorts of ways of tricking the world into thinking you're beautiful.
Now Facebook is set to roll out a new system which will make you look prettier in real time.
The social network is preparing to introduce Snapchat-style filters for its Live service, which allows both celebs and civilians to broadcast themselves to the world.
In March, it snapped up a firm called MSQRD (pronounced masquerade) that specialises in video selfies.
Before Facebook swoooped, MSQRD users could take moving videos of themselves and then apply filters to change the look of their face.
This could mean applying "masks" to look like a famous celeb or adding "emotions", such as a pair of big eyes to indicate surprise or excitement.
"At Masquerade, we’ve worked hard to make video more fun and engaging by creating filters that enhance and alter your appearance," designer Eugene Nevgen wrote after the news was announced.
"Now, we’re excited to join forces with Facebook and bring the technology to even more people. Within Facebook, we’re going to be able to reach people at a scale like never before."
Snapchat's own filters have been criticised recently, because some of them allegedly lighten users' skin.
The app's "beautifying" functions were slammed by people who claimed they "whitewashed" dark complexions.
These filters are designed to wipe out blemishes and many of them lighten up the entire image - a fact that was lost on the super-sensitive people of social media.
Other people also claimed a Bob Marley filter which pasted the singer's face and dreadlocks over a person's picture was the digital equivalent of "blackface".
Facebook is unlikely to risk controversy, so expect filters to be carefully and tastefully chosen.
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