Facebook Messenger Updates

[Siva]

Facebook messenger is one of the most downloaded apps on the play store. It's getting yet another feature now. Live location sharing allows you to share your location with friends continuously for 60 minutes. Once you start the location sharing, there'll even be a countdown timer as to how much more time the sharing will be active.

Source: http://www.androidauthority.com/facebook-messenger-update-736546/

 

[Bapun]

User privacy is no more a thing on the internet!

 

[supermachi]

only if activated the details will go

 

[sumitroy]

Facebook Messenger for Windows 10 updated with UI changes - MSPoweruser

 

[sumitroy]

• Facebook has a virtual assistant called “M” you probably didn’t know existed.
• The company announced today it will be shutting M down in a little over a week.
• This is curious timing, as CES 2018 is about to start and virtual assistants are the hot topic.

Say goodbye to M, Facebook's virtual assistant

 

[sumitroy]

Facebook launched a Messenger app just for kids this past December, but it was only available on iOS. Now the app is available on Amazon's app store for Fire tablets as well. While it might not help counter the current worries over connected gadget addiction, the app has some built-in features to help limit kids exposure to undesirable content and people.
The app has parental controls that limit video calls and messages to approved family and friends. Kids can engage in group or one-on-one video calls, adding age-appropriate GIFs, frames, emojis, interactive masks, Facebook reactions and sound effects to their chats. Adults can chat with kids via the adult version of Messenger, too, so there's no need for a separate app if you're a grandparent or parent. The app works via WiFi so there's no phone number needed for kids to use the app.

Facebook's Messenger Kids app arrives on Amazon Fire tablets

 

[sumitroy]

“The app became too cluttered,” Facebook’s head of Messenger David Marcus announced today in a post of plans for 2018 including “massively simplifying and streamlining Messenger this year.” Between Messenger Day/Stories, its Snapchatty augmented reality camera, a bot Discover section, games, and more, Facebook had to build artificial intelligence “M Suggestions” just to remind people of all the features it has crammed in the app.

Bloated Facebook Messenger promises to simplify in 2018

 

[Bapun]

Six Trends for 2018: What to Watch from Messenger

 

[sumitroy]

Facebook’s controversial app Messenger Kids, which lets parents control who kids can talk to, is today rolling out to Android devices in the U.S. with its launch on Google Play.
Website: Facebook Messenger Kids | Safe Kids Chat App
Source: Facebook’s kid texting app Messenger Kids arrives on Android

 

[sumitroy]

Facebook Messenger now lets you add more people to a voice or video call without hanging up first. The new feature is available with the latest Android and iOS Messenger update.

Previously, users who wanted to turn a one-on-one call into a group call needed to end the call, then go through the process of starting another call.

Facebook Messenger now lets you add more people to in-progress calls