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After a bunch of updates and new features from Facebook a few weeks ago, Messenger users may soon see another new feature on the messaging app. Reportedly, Facebook is working on a new ‘Add contact’ feature on Messenger. The feature, as confirmed by
BuzzFeed News , allows users to add new contacts or people on Messenger, without actually adding those people on their Facebook friend list. In essence, with the new feature rolled out, Messenger would have a sort of standalone contact list of itself, independent of a user’s friend list on Facebook.
Presently, a user’s Facebook Messenger contact list has generally been drawn out of the friend list that the users have on their main Facebook page. However, if you think of the ‘Others’ inbox, you’d realize that the ‘Add Contact’ feature has somewhat existed, may be on a slight superficial level, but it has. Even now, when somebody who is not on a user’s Facebook friends list, messages them on the Messenger, they are prompted with a request to allow or ignore the conversation with the contact. If the request is declined, then any future messages from that contact goes to the ‘Others’ inbox, and if it is accepted then it is shown like any other contact on their standard Messenger inbox.
Having said that, the ‘Add contact’ feature will offer more independence to users of Messenger. The feature is evidently
Facebook ’s attempt at making Messenger a more efficient standalone app in itself. The ‘Add contact’ option will allow Messenger users to create a separate contact list on the app like on any standalone messaging app like WhatsApp. The latest features comes almost a year after Facebook allowed users who did not have a Facebook account to join Messenger. Users can sign up on Messenger by just using their mobile numbers.
Facebook has been constantly adding new features to the Messenger, giving more power to the app. Recently, Facebook started to roll out a ‘secret conversation feature’ on the app, which enables users to self destruct their conversations after setting a timer to it. A secret conversation in Messenger is basically an end-to-end encrypted conversation. Which means, that the particular conversation is meant only for the recipient and sender, and no one else, including Facebook, can access that conversation.
Then there are Messenger bots that Facebook introduced this year. Within couple of months of the launch, the platform already has more than 11,000 bots. Facebook had revealed that more than 23,000 developers have signed up for Wit.ai’s Bot Engine. Wat.ai is an open platform for natural language processing, which was acquired by Facebook this year.
Facebook recently reached a monthly active user count of 1 billion for the Messenger app , growing faster than the main Facebook page. The Messenger app saw 100 million active users adding every few months, since the beginning of 2016. While in January 2016, the app claimed to reach 800 million active users, in April it confirmed a user base of 900 million users. And by July it touched a billion.
http://www.bgr.in/news/soon-you-can...nger-without-adding-them-as-facebook-friends/
BuzzFeed News , allows users to add new contacts or people on Messenger, without actually adding those people on their Facebook friend list. In essence, with the new feature rolled out, Messenger would have a sort of standalone contact list of itself, independent of a user’s friend list on Facebook.
Presently, a user’s Facebook Messenger contact list has generally been drawn out of the friend list that the users have on their main Facebook page. However, if you think of the ‘Others’ inbox, you’d realize that the ‘Add Contact’ feature has somewhat existed, may be on a slight superficial level, but it has. Even now, when somebody who is not on a user’s Facebook friends list, messages them on the Messenger, they are prompted with a request to allow or ignore the conversation with the contact. If the request is declined, then any future messages from that contact goes to the ‘Others’ inbox, and if it is accepted then it is shown like any other contact on their standard Messenger inbox.
Having said that, the ‘Add contact’ feature will offer more independence to users of Messenger. The feature is evidently
Facebook ’s attempt at making Messenger a more efficient standalone app in itself. The ‘Add contact’ option will allow Messenger users to create a separate contact list on the app like on any standalone messaging app like WhatsApp. The latest features comes almost a year after Facebook allowed users who did not have a Facebook account to join Messenger. Users can sign up on Messenger by just using their mobile numbers.
Facebook has been constantly adding new features to the Messenger, giving more power to the app. Recently, Facebook started to roll out a ‘secret conversation feature’ on the app, which enables users to self destruct their conversations after setting a timer to it. A secret conversation in Messenger is basically an end-to-end encrypted conversation. Which means, that the particular conversation is meant only for the recipient and sender, and no one else, including Facebook, can access that conversation.
Then there are Messenger bots that Facebook introduced this year. Within couple of months of the launch, the platform already has more than 11,000 bots. Facebook had revealed that more than 23,000 developers have signed up for Wit.ai’s Bot Engine. Wat.ai is an open platform for natural language processing, which was acquired by Facebook this year.
Facebook recently reached a monthly active user count of 1 billion for the Messenger app , growing faster than the main Facebook page. The Messenger app saw 100 million active users adding every few months, since the beginning of 2016. While in January 2016, the app claimed to reach 800 million active users, in April it confirmed a user base of 900 million users. And by July it touched a billion.
http://www.bgr.in/news/soon-you-can...nger-without-adding-them-as-facebook-friends/
