Becoming friends with someone on Facebook Messenger just became a lot easier. In a new update that started to roll out Thursday, Facebook's chat app now has Messenger Codes -- circular patterns around ...

Facebook Home is due out today and will likely arrive soon, but the standalone Messenger app update is already here, and it brings Chat Heads support to most Android devices, regardless of whether or ...

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Facebook Messenger is about to get smarter. Much smarter. The five-year-old messaging platform, which reports 1 billion monthly active users, announced on Thursday that it is rolling out its ...

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Facebook’s Messenger app has evolved ever since it was first released as a standalone app in 2011. Today Messenger has over 1.3 billion people using it each month and has features like bots, ...

Facebook Messenger has had video chat capabilities for a couple of years now, and last December, it finally added group chat capabilities. Today, the company is unveiling even more features to ...