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The Lesser-Known Facebook Messenger Features

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The usage of Facebook Messenger has been increased ever since Facebook made the application compulsory to have if one wishes to see the messages he/she received. The Facebook application doesn’t show the messages received and doesn’t allow the users to have conversations with the friends in their friends list.

Here are a few lesser known Facebook Messenger features that you should know about.

Play Instant Games:

You know that you can actually get access to different mini-games by simply sending an emoji in Messenger. This fun way of challenges between you and your friends will help you have lots of fun. There are a lot of game choices available that you can play by simply tapping on the gamepad icon on the bottom of the chat screen. You can find classic arcade games, adventurous games, and many more. You can also choose to play solo.

Messenger on PC:

There is a simple website on the internethttps://www.messenger.com/. You can simply login into your account on this website and access your conversations and have chat with your near and dear ones right from your account without opening your Facebook.

Cool right!! To protect your privacy, you can also hide your status visibility.

Chatbots:

Facebook Messenger is one of the very platforms that has been experimenting with chatbots and is a really great thing for the users as it let them have fun. There are plenty of chatbots available in the messenger and you can choose as per your likes and desires. You can find various news bots, bots of websites, gaming bots, informative bots, and many more. You can access the bots by simply tapping on the lightning bolt icon and you will then find the bots list and you can choose from the many options available and even search for a certain bot.

Supersize Emojis:

Emojis are a lot of fun  and what if they can be sent in any size that you want, yes Messenger actually its users to do so, and all you need to do is just hold the bottom right corner of the emoji and it will grow, stop at the size you think would be fine to send and then hit the send button, that is it.

Send Encrypted Messages:

Facebook Messenger has a while ago introduced the encrypted messages feature that many users might not be aware of. If you choose to send an encrypted message to someone, then just tap on the secret option on the top right corner of the screen and then select the contact and type the message you wish to send, finally hit send. If you don’t find the secret option upright, then enable the secret conversations option in Settings.

Must Have Chatbots For Your Facebook Messenger

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Chatbots are becoming more and more popular these days and many companies are actually allowing the bots to run their customer service. Facebook Messenger also support bots and it has about 10000 bots at present, but choosing the best ones that help us is not easy and finding them is also not easy. So here I am with you to inform you about the top chatbots that you must try on your Facebook messenger through this article.

Facebook Chatbots That You Must Try

CNN:

CNN as one of the best news providing service never miss the opportunity to get updated with the technology and so it even entered the bots technology and it gives you the news with the various sections like Top stories, Stories for you or Ask CNN. You can also use keywords like headlines which brings you the top headlines of the day and politics which brings you the news regarding politics section.

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Hello Jarvis:

Just like Apple’s Siri and Microsoft’s Cortana, there is about in your Facebook Messenger which is assigned to do a task that is just to remind of something that you are about to do at ascertain time. It reminds you. It is a clever tool and understands what you say.

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Digg:

Digg is also like the CNN chatbot that gives you information in a much cool way. Typing the keyword trending will bring the latest news and keywords like tech, dig, politics etc., will deliver you the relevant news sections instantly.

Fynd:

This is a shopping bot. Just type what you are looking for and it will search the whole internet for you and put in the bots for your Facebook Messenger best deals for you. Fynd bot is a mobile form of their website and you can even try it if you in the middle of the store to check out the best prices.

Kukie:

It is a very useful bot that helps you by giving you start up ideas and resources to start the start-ups. It helps you with names, logos, domains, marketing and much more.

Do check out these interesting and useful chatbots in your FB Messenger

 

 

You must check out this Einstein chatbot on Facebook messenger

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Have you ever wanted to use the Facebook Messenger’s chat service as a tool of education? There is a chatbot which comes to your rescue if you are searching for and educational chatbot. And that chatbot is the Einstein chatbot, which is usually launched to promote the Genius show of the National Geographic channel which is all about Albert Einstein.

You will get to learn more about Albert Einstein after you start using this chatbot. The chatbot lets the users explore the details of Einstein’s life and his various accomplishments. This all new way of learning some historical facts, popular figures and their ideas through online chatbots is the best way as they are more likely to be easily remembered by the people. So, this all new educational chatbot from National Geographic’s Genius show is very much useful and everyone must check this one for sure.

This Einstein chatbot replies to your questions and responds to your chat quickly making you learn some very new and lesser known interesting things about the Genius.

So, go and check out this chatbot in Facebook Messenger

Facebook Messenger is coming up with a data saver mode

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Facebook messenger has been competing well with its rival messaging applications by introducing lot more new features day by day. The bot feature in the messenger is the highlight.
The fully featured service may be a concern for all those people who use the messaging service on their mobile data.
For receiving and sending text messages this won’t be a big deal, but if one starts to receive videos, images and more such stuff, the data concern will grow and there comes the need to save data, and here is Facebook Messenger coming up with
The data saver mode will be a boon for all those mobile data users out there.
Facebook Messenger Beta has already rolled out this feature which allows them to save their data on their devices. This mode will stop the messenger from automatically downloading the photos and videos, we can tap on them to download if we want. The application continues work normal when it is connected to WiFi network.
This data saver mode makes the messenger more efficient and awesome, for all those mobile data users out there

How to Send Messenger Secret Conversations?

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Facebook started supporting end-to-end encryption of the Messenger texts since a couple of days. If you worry more about the privacy and security of the Facebook conversations, now you can encrypt the chat, and you can also set to self-destruct the sent messages after a specified period.

How to send Messenger Encrypted messages?

The end-to-end encryption of the Messenger application termed as “Secret Conversations.” Before starting secret conversations both the parties need to enable the option from the Messenger Settings.

Right now the option is only available for the mobile users, and you can’t get it on Web messenger. Open Facebook Messenger application from your Android /iOS smartphone and tap the Profile icon.

How to send Facebook Messenger Encrypted

In the list of the options presented on the screen, you may find an option called “Secret Conversations.” You need to enable it.

If you are using two smartphones to chat with your Messenger friends you can only send encrypted messages from only one device. So decide the most used device for the chat and enable Secret Conversations feature on it.

Now on the Messenger Home screen select “Write a Message” option, on the next screen enable lock screen on the right top conrner and select the contact you wish to start a conversation.

How to configure Self-destruct messages on Messenger?

Facebook Messenger self-destruct messages

When you enabled secret conversations for a particular chat conversation, you will get a clock symbol at the right corner of the list of options available in the chat window. There you can configure the timeframe for the self-destruction messages. Now onwards the messages you sent to that particular contact automatically wiped out after they read them.