Facebook has launched a
new feature that allows users to determine their gender by other than male or
female, a feature that launched in conjunction with the global celebration of
Valentine's Day.
Facebook explained that
the new feature will help users of the social network on the definition of
their identity in better way, where those users are now able to define their
gender freely without being bound by male or female.
Through the new feature,
the social network allowed its users a third option as well as male and female,
the new option is "Custom", which allows the user to write his gender freely without restriction options.
The gender chosen by the
user, within the new feature, will appear in his personal account for the rest
of the users, where Facebook confirmed that one of the main reasons for
the launch of this feature is to allow all users to share
their true sexual identity with others.
The feature is currently
available for only 19% of Facebook users, where Facebook began to test the
feature to its users in the United States, without revealing any details about
the possibility put forward for the rest of users around the world.
It is noteworthy that
Facebook used by 1.23 billion active user monthly, including 757 million daily
active users, also referred to that about 81% of social network users are from
outside the United States.
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