messenger
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Facebook Working On A Messenger Feature For Sorting Your Real Friends From Your Fake Friends
Facebook is prototyping a feature to mimic Instagram’s Close Friends feature, which allows users to share some content with a select group of friends rather than everyone they’re connected with on the platform—a feature that might prove helpful for anyone hoping to keep snoopers out of their feeds.
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Facebook May Finally Stop Forcing You To Use Its Messenger App
Remember when, a few years ago, Facebook forced us all to download the standalone Messenger app to chat with friends? It appears it’s now backtracking on that and looking to roll chats back into the main Facebook app.
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Facebook Launches A Camera For Your Home, What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Hot off the news of a massive user-data breach, today Facebook is entering the smart display wars with Portal, a connected gadget with speakers and a screen, built-in Alexa integration, and even deeper ties into Facebook for people who don’t yet distrust Facebook with every fibre of their being.
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Facebook Admits To Major Screw-Up That Silently Unblocked People Without Asking
Facebook disclosed a new “bug” on Monday that temporarily let some users who’d been blocked on the service send messages to the people who had blocked them. The bug also let some previously-blocked users view posts that were shared “to a wider audience”, such as publicly or with friends of friends, Facebook said.