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Facebook Messenger Camera Updated with Special Effects and Shapchat-like Features

Dec 16, 2016 By

When you’re great at something, even the best of best will try and be like you. Facebook has effectively proven this notion. Though Facebook has a reputation for adding new features to its browser and mobile app every now and then, this time they’ve copied Snapchat! Yeah, this juicy gossip is actually true. Facebook messenger was slowly losing its significance and a part of its business to Snapchat. To get back in the game, the multi-billion social media giant cleverly copied its photo sharing feature. Thus, the Facebook messenger camera was upgraded with cool features to attract younger generations.


Why is the New Facebook Messenger Camera so Cool?

Centralized Camera Button, Filters, Stickers and Messenger Day. Brand new Facebook messenger camera has won our hearts!
Centralized Camera Button, Filters, Stickers and Messenger Day. Brand new Facebook messenger camera has won our hearts!


  1. Ease of Accessibility!

The brand new Facebook messenger camera is easier to access. Developers have put the big, circular camera icon in the center of your Messenger window. With a single tap, it’ll display your camera screen, like other camera apps such as Beauty Plus, WeCam etc. If you press it for a long time, it’ll start recording videos. Cool, isn’t it?

  1. Plenty of Filters and Stickers to make it More Fun

One thing that we absolutely loved about Snapchat was cute filters and funny stickers that were displayed on our pictures. Even Zuckerberg has fallen in love with them. Consequently, the new messenger cam will feature animations, stickers, facial apps and other special effects. The company has been working on this project since October and they’ve managed to deliver it this month.

  1. Swipe Left and Right like Tinder

Wait a second, you don’t have to swipe left and right to express your ‘likes and dislikes’. Instead, you’ve to swipe the camera icon to the left to share your video and photos with your friends. Quite convenient it is!

  1. Messenger Day

This one totally resembles the ‘Snapchat story’ feature where you can add graphics, videos and pictures that disappear within a day. This feature appears on top of your chat list.

Other than this, the company is also working on ‘M suggestions’. Sadly these updates are available in selected countries only. Nevertheless, we’re sure that the trend will gradually spread across the world! With Snapchat upgrading to group chats now, it’ll be interesting to see how they fare. We smell tough competition!

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Facebook, Facebook cam, Facebook Messenger, Facebook messenger new camera, Facebook Messenger Update

Gear Up for Facebook Messenger Games, They’re Fast, Furious and Fun

Nov 30, 2016 By

Facebook is going to launch 17 interesting Facebook Messenger games by world-class developers like Taito, Konami, Zynga, King studios and Bandai Namco. The list includes classics like Pac-Man, Words with Friends Frenzy and Space Invaders.
Facebook is going to launch 17 interesting Facebook Messenger games by world-class developers like Taito, Konami, Zynga, King studios and Bandai Namco. The list includes classics like Pac-Man, Words with Friends Frenzy and Space Invaders.

Got bored of virtual world already? Don’t worry, world’s largest social network Facebook has plenty of tricks up its sleeves. A report by anonymous gaming network reveals that an average online user plays chat games for 21 minutes per day. Keeping this fact in mind, site developers are going to launch 17 interesting Facebook Messenger Games by world-class developers like Taito, Konami, Zynga, King studios and Bandai Namco. The list includes classics like Pac-Man, Words with Friends Frenzy and Space Invaders.

Starting from today, these games will launch in 30 countries. This is a sneaky strategy by FB to get users to spend more time on chat messengers.


What’s the Deal?

They’re directly available on your chat messengers. Unlike heavy native apps, they don’t take time to load since they’re built on a user-friendly HTML5 mobile web standard platform. These instant games are designed to suit both Android and iOS devices. You just need to hit a teeny-weeny game controller icon displayed next to sticker or photo buttons on your Facebook Messenger thread. Folks, who want a bigger and better gaming experience can play it on web browsers too.

You can even take a stylized screenshot of your game score and share it across Twitter, Snapchat and other messengers.

These instant games are designed to suit both Android and iOS devices. You just need to hit a teeny-weeny game controller icon displayed next to sticker or photo buttons on your Facebook Messenger thread.
These instant games are designed to suit both Android and iOS devices. You just need to hit a teeny-weeny game controller icon displayed next to sticker or photo buttons on your Facebook Messenger thread.

 

What’s the Catch with Facebook Messenger Game?

Facebook lost itself to the fast-pacing gaming world. As users switched to mobile, they started downloading apps from native stores. FB tried to hit back with Project Spartan (an HTML5 platform) in 2011, but it failed, as mobile web standard couldn’t compete with flashy, high-resolution, easily downloadable native apps. Nevertheless, FB developed a strategy to squeeze in better graphics and this is how they started building their own apps.

While you test your luck and challenge your friends with high scores, Facebook will reap plenty of dollars from promotional game ads. They might launch paid games in future.

Now that Facebook Messenger has put up entertaining games just two clicks away, it’s hard to resist the temptation. Go ahead and try them!

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: Facebook Messenger, Facebook Messenger Games

Facebook messenger finally gets 1 billion users:

Jul 20, 2016 By

Facebook Messenger has finally been able to achieve the 1 billion user mark. This is something that Mark Zuckerberg had envisioned when he first made sure that Facebook messenger would have to be popular raised. The Yang entrepreneur has already been quite popular with the Facebook web platform but he was not really getting a lot of excitement on the Facebook messenger. Much of this was dominated by WhatsApp and other such Internet messaging applications. But Facebook resolved to get the messenger download is 2 as many systems as possible finally paid off when the company decided to make it a mandate for all mobile users to download the Facebook Messenger for accessing certain features on the Facebook account.

When the company tried to popularise the Facebook messenger they made use of a simple study on the kind of transactions that were being done on Facebook comma not on a monetary basis but on a social basis point 17 bilion photos of months, 1 billion messages, 380 million stickers and 22 million g I f a day is big enough statistics for Mark Zuckerberg to know that he could exploit these resources to get what he wants point also 10% of the voice calls that happen through FB are true the Messenger. So now if the company wants to popularise the platforms comma it’s decided that it has to make use of boats and developers to bring about a new change. And finally this shit is sick also came up point today Facebook wit.ai Bot engine have about 18000 bots and 23000 developers.

Based on Beluga, a chat software created by three ex employees of Google, formed the basic structure on which the Messenger was built, after Facebook acquired it. Everyone at the the Facebook theme is override including the head of the Messenger department David Marcus. They never expected that Facebook messenger would finally be able to get such a huge number of users within such a small span comma but it was the dream come true and they enjoy every moment of it.

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Facebook Messenger

Facebook Messenger Finally Released For Windows 10 Mobile OS Devices

Jul 3, 2016 By

Over the past several years, Facebook has been a company which has been coming out with regular updates and upgrades for their apps. The company has been working hard and has been gaining millions of users at a very rapid pace. Each of their apps has hundreds of millions of users, with the main Facebook app nearing the 2 billion mark. Facebook owned WhatsApp too has crossed a billion users now, and the next app which is heading there at a rapid pace is the Facebook Messenger which has now crossed over 900 million users. The company has had a dominating presence across several platforms, and after Android and iOS, the company has now moved to the Windows 10 Mobile platform.

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The Facebook Messenger arriving for Windows 10 Mobile OS devices means that the company is now working to bring forward a major change in the way the markets function. Facebook Messenger has been around for quite a while, and its release for the Windows 10 Mobile OS shows that Facebook still trusts that the Windows Phone devices do have a future. The Facebook Messenger app for Windows 10 Mobile devices not only works for the Windows 10 devices, but also for the Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 8.1 devices. It can be downloaded for free from the Windows Store.

The app offers the users nearly every feature that the Android and iOS users have, including the ability to change themes, change username, do group conversations, send stickers, and even send gif images.

The Messenger is now close to hitting the 1 billion user mark, and now Windows Phone devices too, have something to contribute to the numbers! Facebook is finally paying attention to the need of the users on the Windows Phone devices, giving it major credibility and showing the markets yet again that there still is hope in the Windows Phone devices.

 

Filed Under: Microsoft Tagged With: Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Phone, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile, Windows 10 Mobile OS, Windows Phone

Facebook Messenger Gets Major Redesign – Birthdays, ‘Home’ added:

Jun 17, 2016 By

Over the last few years, Facebook has been a company which has been on a major rise to success. The company has been coming out with a large number of updates and upgrades for their devices and has been changing the way we know the markets of technology to be. The company has been innovating several aspects of the markets as we know it to be, and has been coming out with some of the major changes for their apps. One such big change has now rolled out for the Facebook Messenger.

Facebook Messenger Redesign

The Facebook Messenger has received a redesign today, where several new features have been introduced.

Users of the Facebook Messenger can now see ‘recent messages’ on the top of the screen where chat bubbles with your recent conversations would be placed. A new ‘favorites’ section, too, has been added where the users you converse the most with would be shown. A new, ‘active now’ section has also been added where you would be able to see the users who are currently available online.

Other than this, another major change has come in the form of a ‘birthdays’ section, where users can notice more easily about which of their friends are celebrating a birthday today. The Facebook Messenger would now prompt you to wish them happy birthday.

Facebook has actually issued a newsroom blog post over this redesign, where they have talked about it in detail. The company has talked about why this update was needed, saying, “With these updates, we’re aiming to make Messenger simpler to use by presenting more relevant information. We look forward to building even more ways to make using Messenger better in the future.”

With over 900 million users now using the Facebook Messenger, there have been many updates which have come out in recent times. The latest one being this hidden football game in the messenger, have you tried it out yet?

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Facebook, Facebook Messenger

Special Facelift For Facebook Messenger –Access More Features:

Jun 16, 2016 By

Facebook messenger is now slowly proving to become a juggernaut for Facebook. This application has been developed in order to keep people in touch with each other even without logging into the webpage. However now it serves as something far from just and Instant Messenger. Not only can you share pictures and images with each other A pass from chad’s you can also send across SMS to your friends also whoever is not online on Facebook or does not use Facebook all together. This has created quite a stir in the Tech world and other applications are surely clamoring to get the same features on board.

With features of course we need to understand that Facebook will wants to improve the interface and make it look more different point This is exactly what it has done and now those who use the Facebook messenger regularly will be able to see a brand new interface to use with a lot of new features to access. The new functions that you will now be able to see in the Facebook messenger will include favourite contacts, birthdays of friends and active now. Most other features will remain the same way as they were before.

The new Facebook messenger will now at a lot like Skype as it will help you to see the status of the friend you are wanting to speak with. If they are online you can see a green dot next to their names but if you are considering looking at all your contacts and you can also use the see all options in order to view everyone who is offline as well. The Messenger is designed to understand who you speak with more often and add that person to the favorites list. With this you will not have to hunt for your most used contacts every time from the whole list but you can see them immediately and the top with the kind of shortcut created.

Certain critics have nots taking the birthday reminders in a positive way stating that Facebook already floods be in boxes with notifications of social events like birthdays and anniversaries and the likes. Of course anything like this would be a necessary addition to any social application because if you are to make friends and if you are to keep them you also ought to remember special days.

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Facebook SMS

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