Facebook tests its own version of the away message

Facebook is apparently testing out its own version of the age-old away message in Taiwan and Australia, according to a report.

Starting Wednesday, the social network began experimenting with what it calls the sidebar status, The Verge reports, which is an away message that shows up in the current sidebar pane of Facebook's mobile apps and disappears after 12 hours or whenever someone updates their status. (Facebook hasn't yet responded to our request for comment.)

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Even then, the sidebar status will only appear to the people a user messages most, their so-called "favorites," and won't appear in users' profiles or News Feeds. Read more...

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