Facebook Messenger is constantly adding more features that help friends and family communicate with ease. Now, the popular messaging app is getting a new update that brings two much-requested features to the app: message reactions and mentions.
Both features are pretty self explanatory, but here’s what you need to know. With message reactions, users can now react to an individual message in Messenger, just like how you’d normally use Reactions on Facebook. For example, if someone sends a photo of their pet, you could respond with a love reaction. Or if someone is trying to create dinner plans, you can respond with a yes or no reaction to indicate your preferences. If you’d like to respond with a message reaction, press and hold on a message, then tap to make your selection. Easy, right?
Facebook is also adding a way to directly notify someone when they’ve been mentioned in a conversation. Say, for instance, you’re in a group chat with a couple friends. If you’d like to notify a specific person in that chat, simply type the “@” symbol or start typing the first few letters of the name. When the message is sent, it will show up with highlighted text, and the person mentioned will receive a new kind of notification letting them know that they’re being called out specifically.
Both reactions and mentions will be rolling out to all Facebook Messenger users in the coming days. If you haven’t yet, be sure to head to the Play Store link below to grab the latest Facebook Messenger update.
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Recent updates
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March 9: Facebook has started rolling out Messenger Day worldwide. What is Messenger Day, you ask? Basically, it’s a Snapchat clone that resides as a feature inside Messenger, instead of requiring a whole different app. To make it work, you simply use Messenger’s built-in camera to make a video or take some pictures. You then can add text, cartoon overlays, and other extras. From there, you throw it into a special area called “your Day”. The day can be accessed by either all your friends or select users. After 24 hours, it deletes itself.
Dislike button testing and other reactions in Messenger
March 6: About a year ago, Facebook launched a few additional reaction buttons. Unfortunately, a dislike button wasn’t one of them. Now the company is finally working on a thumbs down reaction, but only for the popular Messenger app.
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January 25: Facebook is bringing ads to your Messenger home screen. for now the “feature” is a limited test run in Australia and Thailand, but you can bet it’ll be rolling out globally soon enough.
Group video chat
December 19: Facebook added group video chat for up to six participants, clearly taking aim at Skype’s traditional domain. Up to 50 folks can now join in on an audio call too, making it a viable alternative for conference calls. Facebook claims 245 million people make video calls with Messenger every single month.
New camera
December 15: Facebook updated its Messenger app with a new camera and some Christmas-themed effects in time for the holiday season. The upgraded camera is “faster, simpler and more fun,” than previously, says Facebook, in order to meet increasingly visual messaging needs.
Facebook Messenger update brings message reactions and mentions
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