Facebook App Messenger Update 2019
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Alfian Adi Saputra
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Monday, August 12, 2019
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Facebook Messenger Review
Facebook App Messenger
Configuration
It's likely you've at least attempted MESSENGER in the past, so this step shouldn't need much explanation. If you don't make use of Facebook or just aren't a fan, great news: you don't require to even have a Facebook account to use MESSENGER. Simply your cellphone number will be sufficient. You download and install the application from the Play Shop. After that either connect with your Facebook account or mobile number, as well as you're in.
Attributes
Boy, where to begin with this one. The listing is long and also rapidly growing longer, so let's experience (what I consider) the largest features one-by-one:
Integrated SMS
This function made some rather severe headings earlier this year. MESSENGER can currently be utilized as both your data-based messenging application as well as mobile SMS texting interface. No, it does not literally take control of cellular-based texting, however it reigns in all your inbound as well as outbound messages into it's user interface, giving you a solitary application to open, no matter the message's medium.
Conventional wisdom may challenge this migration, understanding Facebook's acquire desire to be know all the information of your internet activity ... Facebook itself has actually asserted that they draw no information concerning your messages back its servers; it's only providing this feature [essentially] so you make use of or stay on the MESSENGER app that a lot longer. I think it's up to you whether you're comfortable with that said concept.
Integrated Image & Video Clip Capture
This's not an actual unique function, but it's performance it first-class. While in the application, you can launch either your tool's front or back cam to quickly capture media for sharing functions.
Video Chat
Nowadays not as much breaking-news, however once more it functions really, truly efficiently (though note: this doesn't work with SMS combination). Simply by pushing heaven icon. I claim 'blue', since it might be gray ... this tells you that person isn't readily available to take a video clip call back then. Cool!
In-App Games
When in a discussion, just click the little game controller icon and also select your battle. The list of games is rather long, as well as Facebook specifies it will certainly obtain longer in the temporary. While video gaming has had a limited existence within MESSENGER in the past, Facebook has simply today launched the dogs on the full-boat video game offerings.
You can find out more regarding this brand-new feature here.
Contact Codes
Comparable to Snapchat, MESSENGER supplies a ceramic tile with a scan-able code together with your prompt & relevant get in touch with information.
Show Location
If you're roaming around town and are attempting to meet up with some close friends, MESSENGER's location-sharing feature might come in useful.
A Customized Greeting (if you have a business/page)
If you have a commercial account or page, MESSENGER permits you include a welcoming, to show up when somebody opens up the app to send you a message. This is a great attribute to establishing the tone a consumer (or prospective one) experiences when interfacing with your brand.
Send Out Sound Clips (remove voicemail!).
I'm pretty amazed this set isn't much more prominent than it is. As opposed to leaving a phone message (and making your close friend undergo the arduous job of navigating cellular voice mail), you can just hit the microphone switch as well as leave a voice message right in the app. So instead of having to "dial-in", the receiver can get an alert and also press "play". Ahhh ... it works so damn well.
Well-Composed Group Chats
Unlike conventional SMS (where my experience has actually revealed it to be a total mess), MESSENGER deals with team chats with relative aplomb. The primary method they complete this is giving team talks their own tab, sorting them together as opposed to blended amongst all your various other conversations (especially with individuals who also show up in the team chats).
Stand-Alone Desktop App
OK, this isn't mobile-based, yet I directly utilize it and it works well. Messenger.com will certainly bring up a streamlined user interface that works much like the mobile app; so you do not have to keep going to your phone while at your workdesk throughout the work day (offered your employer is typically cool with this, certainly).
Call an Uber. Or a Lyft
Right in the application is a menu alternative to "ask for a ride". From right here you can choose Uber or Lyft as your solution of selection, and off you go ... without leaving MESSENGER.
Pin a Conversation
Within team chats, you can pin a specific thread to the top of your list, so it's simple to find!
Mute notices
If you're trying to obtain some job done, or have another obligation & do not want to obtain sidetracked with a Carrier conversation, you can select to 'mute' notices from a particular thread for your selection of time (15 minutes, 1 hour, and so on).
Send out & get loan
... and also Facebook does not also charge for the solution. While in a conversation, click the "$" icon, choose the quantity you intend to send to the individual you're talking with, and enter your charge card info. Done.
Send your place (though not making use of Google Maps)
While you might not need this very typically, if you do discover your as well as your friends having problem locating each other while out & about it may come in quite helpful. Merely click your place, and also your good friend( s) will certainly have the ability to view a click-able map to see precisely where you are.
Final thought
Love it or hate it, Facebook has actually built a terrific attribute established right into a really well-performing application in MESSENGER. As well as incorporated with the crazy-big user base, it's obtaining harder on a daily basis to validate not utilizing it (or a minimum of having it mounted).
Hopefully you located some previously-unknown feature that will certainly come in valuable for you. Or, perhaps, you may have located your threshold reason to offer it a try. Let us understand if you have any kind of other must-try attributes in MESSENGER!