Queenie Wong was a senior writer for CNET News, focusing on social media companies including Facebook's parent company Meta, Twitter and TikTok. Before joining CNET, she worked for The Mercury News in ...

The real standout feature is how your Messenger Room can live on your Facebook profile, enabling friends or family members to spontaneously drop in and hang out with you over the video chat. When he's ...

For years, Meta (then Facebook) wanted to unify Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram. It began implementing that plan by allowing Instagram users to talk to Facebook Messenger users three years ...

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Facebook’s plan to unify its messaging apps is beginning to take shape. The company will begin incorporating more of Messenger’s features into Instagram’s in-app chat, including the ability to send ...

Meta has announced it will officially shut down the Messenger app for Windows and macOS on December 15, marking the end of ...

The Facebook Messenger default settings show when you are active online and available to chat with a co-worker or friend. Your connections see a green dot on their Facebook Messenger app or Facebook ...

Making phone calls to businesses could be a thing of the past if Facebook has its way. The company officially launched Bots on Messenger, its version of chatbots, which allows you to interact with ...

Want to chat with The Post and Page Six? Now you can by interacting with our bots on Facebook Messenger. The bots for NYPost and Page Six can send you a daily news roundup — at the time that’s most ...

Did you know that more people are checking their chat apps than they are checking their social media accounts? Facebook Messenger, the world’s largest mobile messaging app (with more than 1.3 billion ...

Chat bots were central to Facebook Messenger’s strategy three years ago. Now they’re being hidden from view in the app along with games and businesses. Facebook Messenger is now removing the Discover ...

Facebook Messenger is coming to businesses’ own websites. The social network announced today the launch of a new customer chat plugin into closed beta, which will allow customers to talk directly with ...