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Now you can send SMS through Facebook Messenger

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Facebook is adding more and more features to its Messenger platform. Earlier Facebook treated Messenger as only a chat companion, which allows personal communication in between Facebook friends.

In those days, I didn’t have any advantage with the Facebook messenger because I am not interested in making chat conversations. That’s why I didn’t install Facebook Messenger and sometimes used “Facebook Chat Enabler” application, to enable chat without the Facebook messenger.

Now things changed a lot and myself, I convinced by Facebook messenger benefits. Facebook is trying to push innovative features to its messenger platform. Every other day I come across Facebook plans to introduce new functionality to the Messenger application.

Today Facebook is slowly rolling out regular SMS and voice call support to the messenger users. If your account got this feature, you need to set the messenger application as the default of SMS client. Now on words, you can send regular SMS through Facebook messenger without any additional SMS charges.

It may take a few days to a few months to get this feature in India. So just be patient.

Facebook new News Feed criteria – Now your Posts may not serve to your Friends

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People post hundreds of text posts, photos, videos, etc., on their Facebook timelines. Facebook display “few” of those posts in your news feed. Why few only? Because on an average Facebook displays maximum 1500 stories only from all of your friends.

FB follows a number of factors while deciding which posts to display on your news feed and which one to avoid. Time to time Facebook learns user engagement patterns and implement the new criteria to serve selected content to the news feed.

Earlier Facebook tracked the posts we like, comment and filled up more posts from the same person with whom we engaged more by liking and commenting.

Today Facebook changed this criteria. Sometimes people like posts on various reasons. FB realized like and comments don’t reflect user’s interest on those posts. So finally changed it News feed algorithm.

Latest parameter is Time spent on posts. Now onwards you are going to see more posts from the person on which you spent more time earlier.

For example, if you loved to read my (Nallamothu Sridhar) entire article by spending your time, it indirectly indicates you are willing to see more content from me. So Facebook calculates the time you spend on my posts and serves my new posts without fail in your news feed.

In my opinion, this is the perfect parameter to evaluate user engagement while displays posts on the news feed. Anybody who spends hours of valuable time on Facebook wants to get quality content which they love. This new Facebook News feed algorithm fulfills this basic need.

Good News.. Now you can make Facebook Group Voice Calls

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Good news for Facebook Users, now you can make Group voice calls through your Android and iOS device. Facebook started the global roll out of this feature. So you can get this feature anytime within a couple of days.

Facebook offering Voice calling facility to its users since long time. This new feature allows them to engage in family and friends voice chit chats.

You can add maximum 50 members to the group call. Each user can see other user profiles while they are part in a Group call.

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Facebook Messenger Chief David Marcus announced this. He mentioned.. “Really excited to announce the global roll out of group calling in Messenger today. From any group conversations, just tap on the phone icon to initiate a group call. You can then manage individual participants on the next screen. If you have the latest version of Messenger, you should see the phone icon appear in group conversations within the next 24 hours. Give it a try, and as always, let us know how we can make it even better for you!”

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At F8 Developer conference Facebook already introduced bots support for Facebook, which can be useful for businesses to communicate and support their users through Messenger application. Now this group calling facility provides more functionality to Messenger fans who spend more time on that.

Five Facebook options that you don’t know

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Facebook has been a very popular social networking site that many people can’t even end their day without opening Facebook. But many don’t know that some options even exist on Facebook. So here I am providing you the most useful and interesting options on Facebook that you can try some time.

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Save

You actually liked a post and wanted to visit it but later, then you can save it for later watch. This option is available at the right corner of a post. If you click on it, you will get a scroll down menu, where you can find save option and click on it and you can have a look at it later on when are free.

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Ads

Do you know that you can actually select the type of ads and category of ads which you want to see on your news feeds and Facebook pages. You can choose among the various category of ads which include shopping, lifestyle, food, technology and many others. You can find this option in the main settings of your Facebook account. And there you can find Ads and then click on Ads based on my preferences.

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News Feed

You can also manually set the settings for your news feed that which post you want to have on the top. You can choose according to your preferences that the posts of which person or page you want on the top of your news feed. And never miss a single post of your best friend or your favourite person now with the help of this setting. You can find this option in Lock icon in the blue bar on the top of your Facebook page. There you can find News feed preferences where you can customize your news feed as per your preferences.

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Facebook Data Download

Do you know that you can actually save the photos and videos of your account into your computer. This option is available in your main settings>General>Download Copy.

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Profile Picture

You can make your privacy settings stronger by changing the Profile picture settings. Make the visibility of your profile picture to only Friends which will not allow the other people who are not in your friends list to open your picture and save it.

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