Facebook wants to fix one more thing: Messenger

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As far back as Facebook transformed Messenger into an independent application a couple of years prior, the organization began heaping up new element after new element over the essential traps you'd anticipate from a portable visit application. Some of those changes are invited increases, including video visit support ever since Facebook turned Messenger into a standalone app a few years ago, the company started piling up new feature after new feature on top of the basic tricks you’d expect from a mobile chat app. Some of those improvements are welcomed additions, including video chat support and rich emoji experiences. Others, aren’t that great, especially the ad spam that you may have noticed recently.

Facebook now thinks that Messenger is sort of broken too, and just promised it’ll fix it soon. That’s the second thing Facebook wants to fix after, well, Facebook.




In a lengthy post, Facebook’s David Marcus explained what’s coming to the chat app this year.

The best thing you can expect from Messenger this year is less clutter. Hopefully, Facebook will be able to deliver it, that is:

Facebook didn’t quite explain what’s going away, but it did highlight other Messenger improvements — let’s hope that doesn’t mean more bloatware.

One of the major concerns for Facebook represents real-time communications, which may include Safety Check prompts delivered via Messenger rather than Facebook:



Facebook also wants users to do more together, hinting that group chats will be improved both when it comes to online and offline experiences:


We'll simply need to keep a watch out if Facebook can transform the general Messenger encounter into the "least demanding and most delightful path for individuals to get to know one another in upbeat and harder circumstances." It's misty when these new Facebook Messenger highlights will be taken off, be that as it may, so we'll need to sit tight for future declarations from Facebook.