Facebook PortalIn these unprecedented times, it’s more important than ever to keep in touch with your colleagues, friends, family, and loved ones—and Facebook Portal was designed just for that purpose. Like many of us, you’re probably spending the majority of your time at home right now. You might be juggling the kids, the cats, and the dogs while you’re trying to work from home, or perhaps you’re spending your days watching oodles of Netflix and playing the hottest Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One games. (Maybe all of the above?) Enter this contest and, if you win, you’ll be able to spend more time connecting with the people you work with or the people you love: the prize is three Facebook Portal devices.

Face-to-face communications always give you that extra something

Sure, you could send an email. But isn’t it nice to see someone’s face light up when you say hello? That’s backed up by science. One of the world’s foremost experts on human communication, Professor Albert Mehrabian’s famed “7-38-55 rule of personal communication” breaks human interactions down to a general ratio of 7% verbal, 38% tone of voice, and 55% body language. That means your facial expressions, gestures, and other movements can make up more than half of your message!

Facebook Portal keeps you in close contact with your colleagues

Perhaps you’re operating a small office, or you have a few major clients for your freelance gig. Sometimes a giant back-and-forth email thread isn’t the most efficient way to get things done. Whether you’re separated by a few streets—or more than a few time zones, you can stay in touch just like you would in a face-to-face meeting by using Facebook Portal. As long as they’ve got Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp, they can link up for video calls, and you’ll be working like never before.

Facebook Portal is also great for keeping in touch with family and friends

Lots of people love Facebook Portal because they can make live video calls to friends and family, display their photos, and more. With more families and friends in different places around the globe, it’s more important than ever to stay in touch. So pop online just to say hi to your best friend, or read stories to your nieces, nephews, or grandchildren. And when you’re not using the device, Facebook Portal has a feature so it can double as a picture frame to display all your favourite Facebook and Instagram photos. How great is that?

How to enter

Entering this contest is easy, but you can only enter once. First, read our reviews of Facebook Portal and Facebook Portal Mini, and our review of Facebook Portal TV. Then, in a comment on this article, tell us one feature you love about Facebook Portal and who you’ll be keeping in contact with the most.

What you can win

At the end of the contest, we’ll select one winner to receive a Portal bundle that includes one Facebook Portal, one Facebook Portal Mini, and one Facebook Portal TV. Keep one for yourself and send the others to the people you want or need to keep in contact with most.

This contest runs from March 31st to April 16th.

Remember, you can only enter once, but you probably know someone else who would love to see the smiling faces of their colleagues, family, and friends all the time. Let them know about this contest so they too have a chance to win—and make their day!

Win a Facebook Portal Contest Rules and Regulations

Good luck!

Jon Braun
Jon Braun
Based in Vancouver, Jon is an Editor at Best Buy. He’s contributed to numerous publications and corporate entities around the world. Beyond a debatably unhealthy obsession with the semicolon, in his spare time he’s a certified beer and sake nerd, and has numerous pieces of flair to prove it.
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  5. Video Calls definitely. Then I could keep in touch with my grandbabies while this quarantine situation is happening.

  9. I like the fact that it can be used as a digital frame when it’s not being used to talk live. I’d use this mostly to chat with my nieces.

  10. I love the smart TV aspect of the Facebook Portal. I’m gonna to keep in touch with my relatives

  11. I love that the camera can follow. We’d be using this for my daughter to chat with her grandparents.

    • I love the smart camera and smart sound and I will be in contact with my son and daughter.

  13. During these times the Facebook portal allowing us to be in touch while isolated is amazing

  15. I like the Smart Camera and Smart Sound which adapt to movements during video calls. This would be fabulous for talking with my parents.

  17. LOVE the Facebook Portal is also great for keeping in touch with family ! Perfect for my uncle in a seniors home to communicate with us and it’s so simple to use! I think this would be wonderful to win to give to him!

  20. I like the Story Time AR (Augmented Reality) feature which could be some fun while we self isolate at with the kids.

  25. It would be great to use the Facebook portal to keep up with family and friends at this time with the live video calls.

  26. The smart camera and sound are my favorite feature. I would use it with my grandchildren.

  27. Video calls at a time like this using the Facebook Portal TV is so important for us to keep in touch with friends we can no longer visit.

  28. i like the idea of the smart camera and smart sound…. might be good for older parents who are not great with technology

  29. This would be great to keep in touch with family during this time. Grandparents and sister out of province would also love it.

  30. I like that it has Facebook watch so that I can get a portal TV for my daughter and her family and we can watch a movie together even though we are in two different cities. There are lots of other things I like about it, like storytime, live video calls so I can see them on the big screen etc.

  31. I love that it doubles at a picture frame when not in use ! Great idea to keep in touch with family and friends! Love this product

  32. Provided a big screen TV to use it with. I would be able to talk to my grandson more often.

  33. The smart camera feature is amazing. I would keep in close contact with my mom and dad if I had this!
    Thanks!

  37. I love that the camera is smart and has a follow feature! I’d be chatting with my parents a lot so they could see their grandson!

    Thanks!

  38. one of the many features that I like is the Smart Camera and Smart Sound which adapt to movements and take into account what’s going on around you to keep you in frame and coming in clear during video calls

    Sounds great to me!

  41. One Feature would be “Facebook Portal keeps you in close contact with your colleagues”

  46. Smart Camera and Smart Sound will be great to truly have real life conversations with my friends.

  47. I love Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant built-in feature. My parent is the one I want to keep in contact with most.

  50. The camera follows your movements and zooms in on you wherever you go. To keep in touch with my sister and her family.

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