Facebook Launches New Tools to Mark 10th Birthday of Messenger
Marking its 10th birthday, Facebook Messenger announced a range of new Messenger features, designed to both spark a celebratory mood, while also adding entirely new functionality to prompt further messaging interaction and usage. New Poll Games, an interactive polling option that enables you to find out new things about friends. Users can now also write […]
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Marking its 10th birthday, Facebook Messenger announced a range of new Messenger features, designed to both spark a celebratory mood, while also adding entirely new functionality to prompt further messaging interaction and usage.
New Poll Games, an interactive polling option that enables you to find out new things about friends. Users can now also write their own prompt for the poll – which will doubt lead to varying levels of tension and angst. But it’s another option to help boost engagement within Messenger chats, and it could be a fun idea to spark discussion in groups.
Facebook’s also adding a new way to share Facebook contacts with friends through Messenger. It makes it easier for people to connect through the app, and refer people for business, providing potential networking benefits.
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Facebook’s also taking the opportunity to preview its coming Word Effects option, “an exciting new way to pair words with the emojis that have meaning to you and your friends.”
Word Effects will enable users to choose an emoji to be paired with a certain word or term, which will then spark an on-screen explosion of that emoji character whenever it’s used within your chat. Which could get annoying, but it might also be an interesting way to spice up group chats. Word Effects will be coming to Messenger in the near future.
Facebook’s also adding a new birthday gifting option for payments in Messenger, which delivers money transfer with new wrapping paper and virtual balloon effects, as well as a Birthday chat theme and 360 background, linking into the celebratory tone. It’s also adding a birthday song Soundmoji and new effects for messages.
And finally, Facebook has also shared some insights into key Messenger milestones – which, among other things, shows that voice notes are at an all-time high this year.
