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"  Chat Heads  Rumors of a &amp;quot;Facebook phone&amp;quot; have been swirling in the tech sphere for ages, but founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg surprised everyone at a press conference today when he announced Facebook Home, which is more of an operating system than a device like an iPhone, but manufactured by Facebook. It&amp;#039;s not quite an operating system but also goes beyond the realm of an app, so places like Wired are dubbing Home an &amp;quot;apperating&amp;quot; system (which makes me think of Harry Potter and Apparating, natch. Facebook, get on that!).  From Facebook&amp;#039;s standpoint, &amp;quot;Home is a completely new experience that lets you see the world through people, not apps.&amp;quot; They&amp;#039;re billing it as a way to turn how you use your phone into more of a social, connective experience versus a series of disparate tasks and apps. &amp;quot;With Home, everything on your phone gets friendlier,&amp;quot; the company says on the official Home website. What does that marketing jargon translate to? In a nutshell, Facebook Home allows Android users to operate their phones through Facebook. Want to text someone? Use &amp;quot;Chat Heads,&amp;quot; which is what the social network is calling Facebook messaging on Home. Chat Heads allows you to text non-Facebook users, too, but FB messages and texts will show up in the same inbox, making a seamless connection between what used to be two different apps. Your newsfeed \u2014 which is called &amp;quot;Coverfeed&amp;quot; on Home \u2014 will show up on your phone&amp;#039;s home screen, providing 24/7 updates about what your friends are up to. A built-in gallery lets you post photos to Instagram, Facebook Camera, and Facebook Messenger.  The idea sounds great, but it also raises some privacy concerns. Facebook also announced that Home will eventually host advertising, which might be annoying in your home screen. Also, since Home is more immersed in every activity you do on your phone than your normal Facebook usage, the company can collect even more data about your habits to better target advertising. Whether users will find that more helpful or invasive only time will tell. Home will only be on certain Android devices when it launches on April 12. Facebook also announced a sort-of &amp;quot;Facebook phone&amp;quot; in the form of the HTC First, which will come with Home pre-installed (versus having to download it for free on other Android devices). The company revealed it hopes to offer Home on other platforms and operating systems, like the iPhone, in the future. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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