What are Facebook Live Audio Rooms? - I'm sure you know what Facebook is. Facebook is one of the largest social media used by billions of people around the world. The company was now renamed Meta Platforms, Inc., . (formerly Facebook, Inc.) It was first released in 2004 February in the United States. Facebook has its headquarters in Menlo Park, California. Social media created by a group of students named Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes was initially only used among Harvard campus students, then expanded to several other campuses in the United States, until now become social media used by users from all over the world. Currently, Facebook also holds Instagram and WhatsApp.

Several innovations have been created by Facebook to make it a social media giant of the world such as a group feature that we can use to exchange information, Facebook stream or live streaming feature that allows its users to broadcast their videos directly as well as Creator Studio FB, a translation feature for posts and comments that helps users to understand the content of the writing regardless of what language is used,  and many other innovations that increasingly make its users feel at home browsing on this one social media.

What are Facebook Live Audio Rooms

One of the latest Facebook innovations that we will discuss this time is Facebook Live Audio Rooms. For those of you who want to know what Facebook Live Audio Rooms are, their benefits, and how to use them, check out this article until it runs out.

What are Facebook Live Audio Rooms?

Facebook Live Audio Rooms

Simply put, Facebook Live Audio Rooms is a feature of Facebook that allows us to create space to chat with multiple people at once. Using Live Audio Rooms on Facebook, you can listen to join conversations with the people you want. The maximum number of participants in this Live Audio room is 50 people, and there is no limit to the number of Live Audio Rooms listeners.

Facebook Live Audio Rooms Benefits

Facebook Live Audio Rooms certainly has many uses that can be utilized such as for groups, group members can communicate and share about many things, then for pages or public figures, they can use this feature to interact more closely with their followers, discuss many things, and so on. On the other hand, Facebook Live Audio Rooms can also be used to help promote fundraising from non-profit organizations or other fundraising groups. So, while listening, the listener is also invited to jointly help or donate to an activity.

Fundraising in Facebook Live Audio Rooms (Image: Facebook)

How to Use Facebook Live Audio Rooms

For now, only a few iOS and Android users in the United States can use this feature. But don't worry, in the future, Facebook will certainly expand its reach in the use of this feature.

For Listeners

For listeners, you can browse Live Audio Rooms Facebook by selecting Facebook live audio available on your home page, precisely at the top of your feeds. You just have to choose which Facebook Audio Rooms you want to follow.

Facebook Live Audio Rooms Features (Image: Facebook)

For Speakers (Room Makers)

To create a Live Audio Room, there are several steps you can follow,

1. Create a Live Audio Room through:

• Live button on your Facebook page or page, or
• Click the Create Room button on your Facebook home page at the top of your feeds.

2. Select Audio and click Next

3. Select Your Audience

4. Name your Live Audio Room

5. Set your Live Audio Room viewing time. You can choose to schedule a viewing or want to live-stream at a moment's note.

6. Invite speakers or speakers to your Live Audio Room

7. (Optional) You can also set monetization features that you can use to benefit or promote donation activities when you live later

8. Start Your Live Audio Room.

Facebook Live Audio Rooms Limitation

For now, Facebook Live Audio Rooms can only be run by verified users or pages on iOS or Android. For listeners, you can only access this feature through iOS and Android only.

Conclusion

This latest feature from Facebook is very potential in the future. It's just that, for now, this feature is still very limited. It is not impossible in the future, this feature will be able to be used by everyone. In addition to Live Audio Rooms, Facebook also launched a Podcast service that you can also use to listen to information and other things on Facebook.

Facebook Podcast (Image: Facebook)

That's all the explanation about What Facebook Live Audio Rooms are. Thank you for reading this article.