Becoming friends with someone on Facebook Messenger just became a lot easier. In a new update that started to roll out Thursday, Facebook's chat app now has Messenger Codes -- circular patterns around ...

Facebook Home is due out today and will likely arrive soon, but the standalone Messenger app update is already here, and it brings Chat Heads support to most Android devices, regardless of whether or ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Meta announced on Tuesday it's rolling out the ability for Messenger users to create shared albums in chats, send photos in ...

Facebook’s Messenger app has evolved ever since it was first released as a standalone app in 2011. Today Messenger has over 1.3 billion people using it each month and has features like bots, ...

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Facebook has updated Messenger with more business chat features. The social networking giant said Messenger 2.3 will bring deeper engagement between businesses and customers via improved customization ...

Mark Zuckerberg warned users about Facebook Messenger screenshots of disappearing messages. Here's how the notification feature works, its real limits, and The post Why Mark Zuckerberg Warns Against ...

SAN FRANCISCO — You already chat with friends on Facebook Messenger. Now Messenger wants you to chat with businesses and get updates from them, too. That's the future Facebook pitched Tuesday at f8, ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook Messenger says it's rolling out group video chat by popular demand. Rather than being limited to person-to-person video calls, up to 50 people can listen, join in via voice ...

Chat bots were central to Facebook Messenger’s strategy three years ago. Now they’re being hidden from view in the app along with games and businesses. Facebook Messenger is now removing the Discover ...