Facebook’s Messenger transformation concentrates on simpleness

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The old variation of the Messenger logo design.


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Facebook’s messaging app is getting a makeover, and the tech company wishes to keep it easy.

On Tuesday, the social networks giant revealed a brand-new variation of Messenger that the business stated is much easier for users to search. Instead of 9 tabs along the bottom, users will now have just 3 tabs: Chats, People and Discover.

The Chats tab shows messages from your pals and groups together with their Stories, a function that lets users publish videos and pictures that sit at the top of the app and disappear within 24 hours. The People tab likewise reveals stories, together with who’s active online. The last tab, Discover, lets users talk with companies like Nike and Sephora and play likewise video games.

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Facebook Messenger has 3 tabs now rather of 9.


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Called Messenger 4, the brand-new variation of the app consists of a video camera button on top to make it much easier for users to snap selfies. People can alter the color of their chat bubbles, picking from gradients of pink, yellow, orange, green and more to show their state of mind. Facebook stated it’s preparing to launch a “dark mode” that decreases the glare from your phone.

Facebook Messenger, which now has more than 1.3 billion users, is commonly utilized in part due to the fact that, starting in 2014, the tech company needed individuals to download the chat service as a different app. Competing with comparable immediate messaging services such as WeChat and Line, Facebook has actually been including more functions to Messenger, consisting of video games, mobile payments and video chat. But all the brand-new functions have actually made it harder for users to browse the app, Facebook executives stated.

“This is a new foundational element that will give us the ability to start building way faster, way better and way more powerful features for 1.3 billion people who are out there,” Stan Chudnovsky, Facebook’s head of Messenger, stated throughout a media instruction Tuesday.

Messenger’s redesign comes at a time when Facebook users are questioning if they ought to rely on the social networks giant to secure their information and personal privacy. Earlier this month, the tech company exposed that hackers accessed the individual details of 29 million users, consisting of birth dates, contact number and home towns. And in March, the Cambridge Analytica scandal exposed that the information of as much as 87 million Facebook users had actually been gathered by the UK-based digital consultancy.

Messenger presently reveals advertisements in a user’s inbox, however the business is likewise checking advertisements for Stories, which might be launched next year.

Facebook exposed in May throughout its yearly designer conference that it was revamping the messaging app so it looked easier and cleaner. The tech company likewise began integrating Snapchat- like filters into the app, enabling users to use a digital mustache or bunny ears.

Facebook’s brand-new video chat gadget Portal is likewise connected to its messaging app. About 400 million individuals voice and video chat on a monthly basis, according toFacebook

The tech company, which likewise revealed a brand-new logo design for Messenger, is presenting the brand-new variation of the chat app worldwide in the coming weeks.

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