The Verge has revealed in a recent report that popular social network Facebook has commenced the test of a new, Snapchat-like feature which will give the users the ability to set their posts for deletion after a specific period of time.

The time interval which Facebook users can set for the deletion of their posts can be anything between one hour and one week.

According to The Verge report, the new feature is currently a "small pilot" being run by Facebook; and the company is initially testing it only on its iPhone app. During the testing, the feature is being made available to a few users, just like most of the other experiments carried out by Facebook from time to time.

About the "pilot," a Facebook spokesman said that the company is testing "a feature on Facebook for iOS that lets people schedule deletion of their posts in advance."

While testing the new feature with a limited set of users, Facebook has also placed a brief 'Help' page on its website, which explains how users can set an expiry date for any Facebook post.

If Facebook's testing of the new feature is successful, the company will likely expand the availability of the feature to all its users, though probably not as a default setting.