Meta is bringing Messenger back to the Facebook app
About a decade ago, Facebook (before it was Meta) made the controversial decision to extricate Messenger from the Facebook app. If you wanted to continue …
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WhatsApp is down in a major outage
WhatsApp is one of the most popular chat apps, with about 2 billion users relying on it to exchange messages with their friends and family …
Facebook’s latest trick for Messenger and Instagram just started rolling out
Facebook just launched a new feature for Messenger and Instagram that allows people to chat with their friends via self-destructing messages. Vanish Mode is rolling …
Facebook enables cross-app messaging on Instagram and Messenger
Facebook announced that it’s ready to merge Messenger chat with Instagram, allowing people to communicate seamlessly across platforms. The move is part of Facebook’s bigger …
Facebook starts ambitious plan to unify all of its instant messenger apps
Facebook has started merging Messenger with Instagram chat, which appears to be the first step towards the unified, end-to-end, instant chat service that Facebook has …
Facebook Messenger’s new security features should protect you from scammers
New Facebook Messenger security features will improve protections for minors as well as adults when it comes to unwanted chat requests. Facebook developed new safety …
It’s not just you: Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger are down
Happy Thanksgiving! Facebook, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger all appear to be sleeping in on this most festive of holidays, as reports of a full-on outage …
Mark Zuckerberg finally told us when Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp messaging will merge
A report a few days ago revealed that Mark Zuckerberg directed teams working on the various Facebook chat apps to create a unified instant messaging …
Facebook’s unified messaging plan might finally convince you to leave Facebook
A bombshell report late last week revealed that Mark Zuckerberg and Co. are considering a massive overhaul of Facebook’s instant messaging apps which include two …
Facebook’s new ‘Unsend’ feature may be in testing in the Messenger app
A few weeks ago we learned that Facebook would soon launch an option to remove messages from a conversation that were sent by mistake. A …
Facebook will let you unsend that dumb thing you just sent on Messenger
One of Gmail’s best features is the ability to unsend emails. Made a mistake? No problem, you’ve got a few seconds to undo it and …
Of course Facebook was going to ruin Messenger with autoplay video ads
Facebook says it will start placing video ads inside the social media giant’s standalone Messaging service next week, an outgrowth of the company saying it’s …
Of course Facebook has been spying on your Messenger chats
Facebook came out swinging on Wednesday, revealing a bunch of changes that will be made to the social network in light of the Cambridge Analytica …
Facebook isn’t secretly logging your calls and SMS on Android
Last week, some Facebook users discovered that the social network logged all calls and text messages made on their Android devices. The revelation came in …
You’re not imagining things: Facebook Messenger on iPhone has a weird bug right now
Facebook Messenger is one of the go-to chat platforms on mobile devices, with more than a billion people having it installed on their mobile devices. …
Facebook wants to fix one more thing: Messenger
Ever since Facebook turned Messenger into a standalone app a few years ago, the company started piling up new feature after new feature on top …
Expect more augmented reality content in your Facebook apps
Augmented and virtual reality are the future of computing, whether we’re talking about smartphones or traditional PCs. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and many other tech companies …
The Messenger Kids app is a brilliantly devious Facebook scheme
Facebook on Monday announced a brand new app for iPhone and iPad that’s targeting children. The Messenger Kids app should be used by those children …
Facebook made a Messenger app that’s just for kids
Facebook is about to launch a standalone Messenger application just for kids. It’s the messaging application some parents have undoubtedly been waiting years to see. …
Facebook Messenger will be flooded by ads, and you can’t do anything to stop it
The last thing that I want to see in an app whose sole purpose is texting and sharing with friends and family is advertisements of …
Only Android users can get the good version of Facebook Messenger
Facebook’s quest to get humanity to spend every waking moment in a Facebook-owned app has ruined Messeger lately. Right now, Messenger is far more about …
Facebook’s aggressive plan to block revenge porn still has one flaw
Facebook on Wednesday announced a new plan to fight revenge porn, a term coined to describe the practice of sharing private pictures of a person …
Facebook might force you to install Messenger on Android
One of the best thing you can do for your smartphone is to remove the Facebook app, and instead, use it in a browser. The …
Crypter is a free app that encrypts all your Facebook Messenger chats
If for some reason you want to add extra layers of protection to your Facebook Messenger chats, there’s a way to do it. There’s a …
The secret ad-free Facebook site that’s hidden in plain sight
Admit it: You use Facebook on your computer a lot, even when you’re not supposed to do it. And often, you use Facebook at work …
In pictures: Facebook’s new virtual assistant offers tricks Siri and Google Now can’t beat
We’ve known for a while that Facebook is working on a special virtual assistant project that will be integrated into its popular Messenger chat application, …
Hate Facebook? Now You Can Use its Best Product Without an Account
In an effort to get as many people using its Messenger app as possible, Facebook today announced that it’s at long last possible to sign up …
