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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.

Ruuh, a new chat bot from Microsoft

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Microsoft launched a new chat bot for Facebook Messenger and it is known as Ruuh. Facebook on Friday launched this bot and it is under testing. Microsoft announced that it is launching this new bot as it is trying to better the conversations. And it is also heard Microsoft stating that it had plans to expand this bot to a wider audience.

The social media giant describes this one as a Desi artificial intelligence bot. Microsoft is still on its way to make this bot a better one for having human-like conversations.  While it has some basic understanding of questions, it goes fully off the track when we ask some follow-up questions.

Let us hope that Ruuh, the new chat bot from Microsoft doesn’t go unsuccessful like the Twitter bot launched by Microsoft. So, let us at least wish to see an all new bot that works better and helps people to have better conversations and brings the artificial intelligence technology in reach to everyone. This chat bot which is currently under testing in Messenger will soon be a complete and fully developed bot available for the public.

Now you can’t open Facebook Messages in Mobile Browsers

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Once again proved that Facebook pushes harsh decisions on its users. A couple of years back it decided to insist users use Facebook Messenger. So rudely it stopped displaying personal messages in the main Facebook application and forced us to download Facebook Messenger to chat with our friends.

The same thing is again happening to those who access Facebook through mobile browsers. Now if you are using Facebook on mobile browser like Google Chrome, Opera Mini, etc., you can’t access messages as you did earlier. Instead, Facebook displaying “Your conversations are moving to Messenger” message on the screen, and placed Facebook Messenger download link.

Beginning from June the same message is showing, but it just hinted the upcoming change. Today Facebook completely blocked access to the message on the Facebook mobile site.

Reasons behind the decision are clear. Facebook wanted to make the Messenger platform more powerful. It already started Bot support for Messenger and integrating various services into the messaging platform. The company has innovative plans to do more business through the Messenger app. So to take advantage of that, first, it has to force users to use Messenger for their personal conversations. That’s what Facebook is doing right now.

Yahoo’s bots for Facebook Messenger

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Like the bots available in Hike Messenger, Yahoo now launched three bots in Facebook Messenger. The bots that Yahoo launched are from various categories which include News, Finance, Weather and a Monkey.

Yahoo’s News bot: @YahooNews will help us to get the latest news and discover all the various trending stories from the web without having to search the internet and we can even share the news with our friends. You can even search for the required topic related news that you would like to share with your Facebook friends without having to open the Google search or Yahoo news.

Yahoo Finance bot: @YahooFinance is the exclusive bot available for Facebook Messenger while the other three bots are also available for kik messenger. This bot will help you to search for the latest news and information related to Finance and thus allowing you to stay updated with the ever changing world of Finance. You can read news, follow the recent market trends and can even play fun games and share the interesting things with your friends.

Yahoo Weather bot: @Yahooweather is another bot from the Yahoo which directly shows the temperature on the screen. And it also shows up some images from its very own Flickr.

Virtual Monkey: @MonkeyPet The final bot from the Yahoo’s newly released bots is the pet monkey bot that shares the selfies it takes and it even responds to your emojis.

These are the newly released bots from Yahoo while there are many other bots available for Facebook Messenger currently. So why not give them a try while you are bored and no one to chat with online.

Goodbye old Yahoo Messenger

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Goodbye, old Yahoo Messenger . Yes, Yahoo is closing it’s old Yahoo Messenger platform on 5th August 2016.

Since its beginning in the year 1998, I’m an active user of Yahoo Messenger which initially named as “Yahoo Pager”. I still remember those days when people spent many hours on Yahoo Public groups in Yahoo Messenger to find out the opposite sex for personal chatting. ASL (Age, Sex, Location) was the buzz word in those days.

Now Yahoo has decided to stop it’s old Messenger platform completely from 5th August 2016. Last Year Yahoo launched new Yahoo Messenger, which has new age features like Group Messaging etc.

Unlike Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, and other popular messenger application, new Yahoo Messenger focussed more on speed and quality of streaming photos into the conversation.

When you tried to share a photo from your Gallery first, a small preview of the image will be shared and later the high-resolution, the complete photo will be shared. Not only innovative photo sharing concept, but it also hosts plenty of new features required for modern messaging requirements.

Still, people around the globe using the old Yahoo Messenger, which in turn became problematic for the latest Yahoo Messenger platform. Keeping this in mind Yahoo decided to stop old Messenger platform completely in a couple of months. So the past is the past, no more ASL requests, no more Yahoo Public groups, if you want to use old Yahoo Messenger for another few days before it completely stopped this is the right time to explore it again.