Facebook Messenger Now Supports Multi-Account

If you run multiple accounts on Facebook, you will feel like an overwhelming task to try to control all communications going in and out. More commonly, however, the families that all share the same device throughout the day. If everyone in the household using a common tablet, it is usually necessary (annoyingly) to sign in and out of a group of Facebook account whenever you want to talk to your friends on Facebook specific.

Facebook has been testing the feature for multiple Messenger account for a while ', and the company now distributes the function of the official app for its first mobile Android, because it is not clear when users can (or if) iOS have the characteristic.

"All over the world, hundreds of millions of people share their phones and tablets with members of their family and friends. At Messenger, we want to make communication simpler, more seamless and secure, so we are happy that we have now launched a feature on Android that enables multiple people to log in and use Messenger from a single, shared device," Facebook's post reads.

"The beauty of this new feature is that messages remain strictly private. Anyone else who shares the device only see the number of notifications of messages you have, but they will never be able to view the content of messages."

Add multiple accounts to the Android version of Facebook Messenger is quite easy. All you have to do is pull up the application settings menu (within the same application) and try a new "Account" option. You can add all the different accounts that you want to use Messenger in there, but you will have to enter the password the first time that you switch to one of them. After that, you can choose to have Facebook Messenger remember the password for each account, assuming you trust your family will not mess with your conversations.

On the positive side, each account will receive notifications only for himself. So, if you are signed in to your account, you will not get any kind of notice if the brothers accounts are blown up with messages. They will have to take the device from your  hands and check themselves.

Facebook Messenger Tests New Personal Assistant

Facebook isn't content merely becoming a repository for all your photos, messages, and status updates. Obviously, the business also would like to start helping you in your day to day life. This week Facebook began rolling out Facebook M, an individual electronic associate you are able to access within the Facebook Messenger software.

Based on to Facebook's vice president of messaging products, David Marcus, M is a different type of personal assistant than present choices these types of as Bing Now, Apple's Siri, or Microsoft's Cortana. First, Facebook M isn't only supported by computer system smarts; it's additionally powered by real people. And 2nd, it doesn’t simply guide you to get things done — it completes jobs for you.Facebook M can purchase things and get them delivered to family and friends, make travel arrangements, and book appointments or reservations at restaurants. Facebook wishes M to be your go-to supply for mobile breakthrough, replacing you have to hit up several apps like Google Maps, Yelp, Uber, and OpenTable to get a job done.

Here’s just how Facebook M works: You tap a button during the bottom of the Messenger software to send M a message, similar to you would a pal. You make a request of Facebook M using normal language, like “Where’s a good location to get pizza in San Francisco?” or “I need a gift for my greatest friend’s birthday. Just what should I buy?” and then you continue a discussion with M until the job is completed. M learns about your choices from your conversations — it doesn’t draw data from the remainder of your Facebook existence — and makes tips based about what it learns. With respect to WIRED, one of several many useful applications of Facebook M thus far along with its beta testers is phoning your bank or internet solution provider and enduring the droning hold music and automatic messages for you.

So Facebook M is quite different from various other digital assistants. Contrary to Siri and Cortana, which have been both "female" here in the M, U.S. has no gender (and you also can’t inform whether it’s human or algorithm answering your queries). And second, with real men and women (dubbed "M trainers") functioning behind the M, scenes is half digital half and assistant Taskrabbit or Amazon Mechanical Turk. (For now, at the very least, Facebook is footing the bill for the human a portion of the equation.) M, thirdly is focused much more on helping you accomplish real jobs, rather than assisting you plan your schedule or search the internet for details.

Facebook M began rolling out to a couple hundred Facebook Messenger users earlier this week and will slowly increase to even more throughout the coming months.