From births to melons: perks and pitfalls of Facebook’s live video revolution

Last week, a man in California streamed the birth of his son on Facebook, allowing hundreds of thousands of viewers around the world to watch the very first moments of a human’s life in real time. The broadcast made a prediction from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg just a month earlier – that “in a decade, video will look like as big of a shift in the way we all share and communicate as mobile has been” – look distinctly conservative.

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