Whether you want to admit it or not, social media plays a big role on our daily lives in this society. A big part of all of our daily interactions now take place on websites like Facebook. While Facebook especially faces a lot of criticism about turning our generation into antisocial, narcissistic, robots, even the critics have to admit that the famous social media site has played a critical role on modern communication. Facebook essentially eliminates borders when it comes to maintaining relationships. The site founded on keeping people connected has evolved to the point where they utilize advanced technologies to develop fun and exciting ways for people of all ages and classes to interact anytime and anywhere.
One of the most popular additions to the original Facebook model has been the messenger application. While there has virtually always been a way to privately communicate with users outside of the public platform, the Messenger application itself was developed outside of the original application to revolutionize the user experience. Facebook aims to bring innovation and convenience to all users, and regularly adds new features to optimize your private messaging experience. With the newest major update being fairly recent, it can be easy to overlook or miss some of the fun new things that Facebook Messenger has to offer.
Personalize a Chat in Messenger
Now, there are more ways than ever to personalize your chat window between friends. Most notably, you can now change your group chat to a specific color or even change the emoji from the default blue window and boring old like button. Want an even cooler option? If you hold down the emoji you can change the size of the emoji sticker that you send over to your friend. With the obvious point that this is awesome and makes your private chats a little bit more personal, it is also an extra convenient way for you to color code your chat windows to make it easier to know which chat you are on (especially if you are someone with multiple group chats).
Make Messenger Snapchat
Snapchat has also been a wildly successful phone application that people have been using to keep in touch with friends and family. Now, you basically have Snapchat right in Messenger! Share short videos and pictures to special people or even share and watch “stories” right on your home screen. Super fun filterers and stickers to add a little pizazz to your photos are also available.
Send Money in Messenger
Exchanging money in real time has become easier than ever with this new feature on messenger. You can now send and receive payments instantly by just adding your debit information to a secure server. You can do this right through the chat and it is just as private as your conversation. It’s a perfect way to send money when you don’t have cash on you but need to send money fast.
Make Video Calls in Messenger
Staying connected is easier than ever when you use the new video chat features. While it is true that you have been able to make free audio and video calls from the Facebook Messenger for a while, it has since become much more efficient and even added new features. Now you don’t have to call each and every party one at a time, the new update now supports group video chats -for free! When you start a group of the friends you want to chat with, you now have the option to all join in on a video call. Whether you want to talk to all of your family or catch up with your old group of friends, this is by far the easiest free way to do this via-internet.
Stand Alone Facebook Messenger Site
Arguably, one of the most exciting feature of Facebook Messenger is that you can essentially take out the Facebook part of it! While not very well know, you can now search through Messenger without ever actually visiting Facebook.com itself. If you go to the following link:
https://www.messenger.com/login.php
you are able to gain access to all of your messages without being tempted to search through your newsfeed. Whether you are trying to get some studying done but need to keep watch on the group chat or simply want to talk to your friends without being bombarded with the depressing state of society, this can be an enjoyable feature to you.
Facebook Messenger has certainly evolved over the last few years and we can only expect it to go up from here. It is revolutionizing the way we are able to keep in touch with friends and family around the globe and adding interactive features that further bring us together.