Messenger App Facebook Update 2019
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Alfian Adi Saputra
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Sunday, December 8, 2019
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Facebook Messenger Review
Messenger App Facebook
Configuration
It's most likely you've at the very least attempted MESSENGER before, so this step should not need much explanation. If you don't use Facebook or simply aren't a follower, good information: you don't need to also have a Facebook account to make use of MESSENGER. Just your mobile phone number will be enough. You download the application from the Play Shop. After that either connect with your Facebook account or mobile number, and also you're in.
Functions
Child, where to start with this. The checklist is long as well as quickly expanding longer, so allow's go through (what I take into consideration) the greatest features one-by-one:
Integrated SMS
This feature made some pretty significant headings earlier this year. MESSENGER can now be made use of as both your data-based messenging application as well as cellular SMS texting interface. No, it doesn't literally take control of cellular-based texting, but it reigns in all your incoming and also outbound texts right into it's interface, offering you a single app to open up, no matter the message's tool.
Conventional wisdom might challenge this movement, recognizing Facebook's acquire desire to be understand all the information of your web task ... Facebook itself has actually asserted that they draw no data regarding your texts back its web servers; it's only offering this function [basically] so you make use of or remain on the MESSENGER app that a lot longer. I think it's up to you whether you're comfortable with that said concept.
Integrated Photo & Video Capture
This one's not an actual novel feature, yet it's capability it superior. While in the app, you can introduce either your gadget's front or back electronic camera to easily capture media for sharing functions.
Video Chat
Nowadays not as much breaking-news, however once again it works actually, really efficiently (though note: this doesn't work with SMS integration). Simply by pushing the blue icon. I say 'blue', because it may be grey ... this tells you that individual isn't offered to take a video telephone call at that time. Cool!
In-App Gamings
When in a discussion, just click on the plot controller icon as well as select your fight. The checklist of video games is quite long, and Facebook states it will get longer in the temporary. While pc gaming has actually had a restricted existence within MESSENGER in the past, Facebook has just this week released the hounds on the full-boat game offerings.
You can read more concerning this new function below.
Contact Codes
Similar to Snapchat, MESSENGER supplies a floor tile with a scan-able code along with your instant & important get in touch with details.
Show Location
If you're roaming around community and are trying to meet some good friends, MESSENGER's location-sharing attribute may come in helpful.
A Customized Introduction (if you have a business/page)
If you have an industrial account or web page, MESSENGER allows you include a greeting, to appear when somebody opens up the app to send you a message. This is a wonderful attribute to establishing the tone a customer (or prospective one) experiences when interfacing with your brand.
Send Sound Clips (eliminate voicemail!).
I'm rather surprised this isn't much more preferred than it is. Instead of leaving a phone message (and also making your close friend go through the arduous task of browsing mobile voice mail), you can simply hit the microphone switch and leave a voice message right in the application. So rather than needing to "dial-in", the receiver can obtain a notification and press "play". Ahhh ... it works so damn well.
Well-Composed Group Chats
Unlike conventional SMS (where my experience has actually revealed it to be an overall mess), MESSENGER takes care of team chats with family member aplomb. The main way they achieve this is providing group chats their very own tab, arranging them together as opposed to combined among all your other conversations (especially with individuals that also turn up in the group chats).
Stand-Alone Desktop Computer App
OK, this isn't mobile-based, yet I personally utilize it and it functions well. Messenger.com will raise a structured interface that works much like the mobile application; so you do not have to keep mosting likely to your phone while at your workdesk during the job day (offered your company is generally amazing with this, of course).
Call an Uber. Or a Lyft
Right in the app is a food selection option to "request a trip". From here you can choose Uber or Lyft as your service of option, and off you go ... without leaving MESSENGER.
Pin a Conversation
Within team chats, you can pin a certain thread to the top of your listing, so it's easy to locate!
Mute notifications
If you're trying to get some job done, or have another responsibility & don't want to obtain sidetracked with a Messenger discussion, you can choose to 'silence' notifications from a certain thread for your choice of time (15 minutes, 1 hour, and so on).
Send out & get money
... and Facebook doesn't also charge for the solution. While in a discussion, click on the "$" icon, pick the quantity you wish to send out to the individual you're chatting with, and enter your bank card details. Done.
Send your area (though not making use of Google Maps)
While you might not require this really usually, if you do locate your and also your buddies having trouble discovering each various other while out & regarding it might can be found in rather handy. Just click on your area, and your good friend( s) will certainly have the ability to view a click-able map to see specifically where you are.
Conclusion
Love it or hate it, Facebook has constructed a fantastic function established right into a really well-performing app in MESSENGER. And also incorporated with the crazy-big user base, it's obtaining harder each day to validate not utilizing it (or at the very least having it set up).
With any luck you found some previously-unknown feature that will certainly be available in valuable for you. Or, possibly, you might have found your limit reason to offer it a try. Allow us understand if you have any other must-try features in MESSENGER!