Facebook Messenger App Update 2019
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Alfian Adi Saputra
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Thursday, October 10, 2019
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Facebook Messenger Review
Facebook Messenger App
Setup
It's most likely you contend the very least attempted MESSENGER before, so this step should not require much explanation. If you don't utilize Facebook or simply aren't a fan, great news: you do not need to even have a Facebook account to use MESSENGER. Simply your mobile phone number will be sufficient. You download the application from the Play Store. After that either get in touch with your Facebook account or mobile number, and also you remain in.
Features
Boy, where to begin with this set. The list is long as well as rapidly expanding much longer, so let's undergo (what I consider) the largest attributes one-by-one:
Integrated SMS
This function made some pretty major headlines previously this year. MESSENGER can now be used as both your data-based messenging app and also mobile SMS texting interface. No, it does not literally take over cellular-based texting, but it rules in all your incoming and also outgoing texts right into it's interface, giving you a solitary app to open, despite the message's medium.
Conventional wisdom may object to this movement, understanding Facebook's inherit need to be know all the information of your web activity ... Facebook itself has actually declared that they pull no information regarding your messages back its web servers; it's only offering this feature [essentially] so you make use of or remain on the MESSENGER application that much longer. I guess it depends on you whether you're comfortable with that said notion.
Integrated Picture & Video Clip Capture
This one's not a genuine novel attribute, but it's capability it superior. While in the app, you can launch either your tool's front or rear camera to conveniently record media for sharing purposes.
Video Chat
Nowadays not as much breaking-news, however once again it works truly, truly efficiently (though note: this does not deal with SMS assimilation). Simply by pushing heaven symbol. I claim 'blue', because it might be gray ... this informs you that individual isn't available to take a video clip call back then. Cool!
In-App Games
When in a conversation, just click on the plot controller symbol and also select your battle. The checklist of video games is rather long, as well as Facebook mentions it will obtain longer in the temporary. While video gaming has actually had a limited presence within MESSENGER in the past, Facebook has just this week launched the dogs on the full-boat video game offerings.
You can find out more about this new attribute here.
Contact Codes
Similar to Snapchat, MESSENGER uses a tile with a scan-able code in addition to your instant & relevant get in touch with info.
Show Location
If you're straying around town and are trying to meet up with some pals, MESSENGER's location-sharing attribute might come in useful.
A Customized Greeting (if you have a business/page)
If you have an industrial account or web page, MESSENGER permits you consist of a welcoming, to turn up when someone opens the application to send you a message. This is an excellent attribute to establishing the tone a consumer (or possible one) experiences when interfacing with your brand.
Send Audio Clips (remove voicemail!).
I'm quite surprised this isn't a lot more preferred than it is. Rather than leaving a phone message (and also making your pal go through the arduous job of navigating cellular voice mail), you can just strike the microphone button and also leave a voice message right in the app. So as opposed to having to "dial-in", the receiver can get a notification as well as press "play". Ahhh ... it functions so damn well.
Well-Composed Group Chats
Unlike conventional SMS (where my experience has actually shown it to be a complete mess), MESSENGER deals with team talks with relative aplomb. The major means they accomplish this is giving team chats their very own tab, sorting them together rather than blended amongst all your other conversations (especially with individuals who also appear in the team talks).
Stand-Alone Desktop App
OK, this isn't mobile-based, yet I personally utilize it as well as it works well. Messenger.com will bring up a structured interface that functions just like the mobile application; so you do not need to keep going to your phone while at your desk throughout the work day (provided your company is generally cool with this, obviously).
Call an Uber. Or a Lyft
Right in the application is a menu option to "request a trip". From here you can pick Uber or Lyft as your solution of selection, as well as off you go ... without leaving MESSENGER.
Pin a Conversation
Within team chats, you can pin a certain thread to the top of your list, so it's very easy to discover!
Mute alerts
If you're trying to obtain some work done, or have another commitment & do not want to get sidetracked with a Messenger conversation, you can choose to 'silence' notifications from a particular thread for your selection of time (15 mins, 1 hour, etc.).
Send & receive money
... and also Facebook does not also charge for the service. While in a discussion, click on the "$" icon, select the quantity you intend to send to the individual you're chatting with, and enter your credit card info. Done.
Send your place (though not utilizing Google Maps)
While you might not require this very frequently, if you do discover your and also your good friends having trouble finding each other while out & about it might be available in quite useful. Simply click on your area, and your good friend( s) will certainly be able to check out a click-able map to see precisely where you are.
Conclusion
Love it or dislike it, Facebook has built a fantastic attribute set into a very well-performing app in MESSENGER. And incorporated with the crazy-big user base, it's obtaining harder everyday to warrant not using it (or at the very least having it installed).
Hopefully you located some previously-unknown function that will be available in useful for you. Or, possibly, you might have found your threshold reason to provide it a shot. Let us recognize if you have any type of various other must-try functions in MESSENGER!