Facebook Introduces Live Audio

Have something super timely to share with your Facebook audience, but don’t want to go live and show your face? The social network has just the thing.

Facebook on Tuesday introduced Live Audio, a new feature that lets you “tell a story … with words and not video.” With this new option, you can go live on the platform with audio only — perfect for those times you have something to say but don’t want to show your mug.

In a blog post, Facebook Product Specialist Shirley Ip and Software Engineer Bhavana Radhakrishnan said some Pages have already come up with creative ways to go live with audio only, by affixing their camera on a still image during their broadcast, for instance. The feature should make it a lot easier. It may…