Facebook Messenger News
Parental Supervision on Messenger is available in the US, the UK, and Canada, with plans to expand to more countries around the world in the coming months.
WhatsApp may bring the feature to make the profile page look better.
WhatsApp has been borrowing features from its sister platform, Facebook.
WhatsApp recently copied the WhatsApp Reactions features from Facebook Messenger.
Having a constant barrage of messages all the time might be irritating.
You can mute chats on WhatsApp, Telegram and Messenger.
These apps come with mute features.
There are two ways Messenger users can opt in to the secure chats.
The encrypted chats also now support verified badges so that people can identify authentic accounts.
All the new features will be rolled out to Messenger in the coming weeks.
The Instagram outage happened due to a technical glitch that further prevented users from accessing their accounts.
Facebook saw the most reported problems as users were complaining at the time of log-in with photos.
Earlier also Facebook services were down in several parts of the world and in the month of April.
The cyber intelligence company has found out that almost 1,000 fake Facebook accounts are distributing links to an allegedly updated version of Facebook Messenger.
And Messenger users who followed the link would then be redirected to a fake Facebook Messenger website with a login form, through which cybercriminals harvested users` credentials.
Scammers used official Facebook logos and shortened link names that resembled the real ones.
App Lock adds another layer of security to private messages.
The optional feature gives users "confidence to know that if a friend or family member needs to borrow your phone, they won't be able to access your chats".
App Lock, present in the new Privacy settings section, will use device's privacy settings like fingerprint or face authentication to unlock the Messenger app.
"Hi, we are O u r M i n e. Well, even Facebook is hackable but at least their security better than Twitter," posted the hackers.
Responding to Facebook`s reply to their earlier letter, Senators Ed Markey (D-MA) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said that Facebook has to do a lot better to protect kids on its Messenger Kids platform, The Verge reported on Wednesday.
Users will have up to 10 minutes to remove a message after it is being sent.
The three services will, however, continue as stand-alone apps, the report said.
The company also announced new stickers, powered by augmented reality (AR).
The new Unsend button will let users not only roll back messages from their inboxes, but also from the entire chat thread.
The Mark Zuckergerg-led company is still recovering from its recent data privacy scandal.
Under glaring spotlight for leaking user data to UK based analytics firm Cambridge Analytica, Facebook will send a notification to its users on Monday (April 9) providing complete details about the nature and extent of the breach.
Messenger Lite is under 10MB, making it fast to install and quick to start up.
"Digmine" is coded in AutoIt and sent to would-be victims posing as a video file but is actually an AutoIt executable script.
The "Discover" tab was initially rolled out for people in the US, at Facebook F8 2017 Developer Conference held in April.
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