Windows 10: Facebook Introducing Messenger Rooms and More Ways to Connect

Brink · Apr 25, 2020

Facebookâs products have always been about connecting people. Over the years weâve focused on how to help people feel present with one another even when theyâre not in the same place. Today, video helps most of us bridge the distance. Tomorrow, weâll be turning to more immersive platforms like AR and VR.

Lately Facebook has felt the demand for real-time video. Between WhatsApp and Messenger, more than 700 million accounts participate in calls every day. In many countries, video calling on Messenger and WhatsApp more than doubled, and views of Facebook Live and Instagram Live videos increased significantly in March. But thereâs more to do to make real-time feel real.

Spending time with each other should be spontaneous, not strained. So to help people feel like theyâre together, even when they are â or have to be â physically apart, weâre announcing features across our products that make video chat and live video easier and more natural.

Introducing Messenger Rooms

Messenger Rooms make it easy to spend quality time with friends, loved ones and people who share your interests. Create a room right from Messenger or Facebook, and invite anyone to join your video call, even if they donât have a Facebook account. Rooms will soon hold up to 50 people with no time limit.

Host celebrations, gather a book club or just hang out on the couch with friends. You donât need to call someone and hope itâs a good time or check everyoneâs calendar first. You can start and share rooms on Facebook through News Feed, Groups and Events, so itâs easy for people to drop by. Soon weâll add ways to create rooms from Instagram Direct, WhatsApp and Portal, too.

If your friends or communities create rooms that are open to you, youâll see them on Facebook so you can find things to do and people to hang out with. When youâre invited to a room, you can join from your phone or computer â no need to download anything to get started. If you have the Messenger app, you can play with AR effects like bunny ears, and new AI-powered features like immersive 360 backgrounds and mood lighting.

When you create a room, you choose who can see and join it. You can remove people from the call and lock a room if you donât want anyone else to enter. Read more about the controls you have and how we built Rooms with privacy and security in mind.

Messenger Rooms is rolling out in some countries this week and will expand to the rest of the world in coming weeks.

Expanding WhatsApp Group Calls

WhatsApp calls are another way to stay in touch. Soon youâll be able to have group voice and video calls with up to eight people on WhatsApp. As before, these calls are secured with end-to-end encryption so no one else can view or listen to your private conversation, not even WhatsApp.

New Live Video Features for Facebook, Instagram and Portal

People are turning to Facebook Live and Instagram Live for workout classes, cooking lessons, faith services and more, so weâre adding features to make them even more useful.

On Facebookâ¦

Weâre bringing back Live With so you can add another person into your live video, no matter where they are in the world. Bring on a guest speaker, interview an expert or perform with a friend.

Youâll be able to mark Facebook Events as online only and, in the coming weeks, integrate Facebook Live so you can broadcast to your guests. To support creators and small businesses, we plan to add the ability for Pages to charge for access to events with Live videos on Facebook â anything from online performances to classes to professional conferences.

To help you raise money for causes, you can now add the donate button to live videos wherever nonprofit fundraisers are available.

Weâre making it easier to access live video so you can watch or listen anywhere. If you have limited data or a spotty connection, you now have the option to listen to the audio only. If you donât have a Facebook account, most public live videos are now available on the web and some Pages can share a toll-free number that lets you listen to the audio through any telephone.

You can livestream games from your phone to Facebook using the new Facebook Gaming app available on Google Play. The app also lets you play games instantly, watch your favorite streamers and discover new gaming groups. Tournaments are another new feature for game streaming that lets you create, play and watch the competition in one spot. Tournaments are available on Facebook today, and coming to the Facebook Gaming app soon.

To help you support some of your favorite creators, weâre expanding Stars to more Pages and more countries. Once you buy Stars you can send them to creators while theyâre streaming, and theyâll earn 1 cent for every Star.

On Instagramâ¦

You can now watch and comment on live videos from your desktop. Follow along with that yoga class on a bigger screen or listen to a live performance as you work.

After you go live, youâll soon be able to save your videos to IGTV so they stick around longer than the 24-hour limit in Stories and are easier for others to find.

On Portalâ¦

Youâll soon be able to go live from Portal to Facebook Pages and Groups. The Facebook Live app on Portal already lets you broadcast to your profile, but later this month youâll be able to share with your communities, too. Whether youâre sharing a make-up or baking tutorial or hosting a more intimate conversation, Portalâs AI-powered Smart Camera can be your personal cinematographer, keeping you perfectly framed, so you can stay present in the moment.

Messenger Kids Global Expansion and New Features

Messenger Kids can help kids stay in touch with friends and family in a fun, parentally-supervised environment. We started expanding the free video calling and messaging app to more than 70 countries and adding new options to help parents connect kids with their friends.

Set Up a Virtual Date in Facebook Dating

To help people find meaningful relationships even when they canât meet in person, weâre adding an option in Facebook Dating to invite people to a virtual date. When they accept, youâll start a video chat in Messenger to get to know each other. This will roll out in the coming months.

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Source: https://about.fb.com/news/2020/04/in...ssenger-rooms/

See also: https://about.fb.com/news/2020/04/pr...ssenger-rooms/

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EmazAnwar · Apr 25, 2020

Facebook Messenger Discontinuation

As announced in Facebook blog, they said:

With over 1B people using Messenger every month, our team spends countless hours making it the best way to message your friends and family. One of the ways we continue to improve is by consistently introducing
rich features, like voice and video calling, games, and bots for Messenger. Using older versions of apps means that experiences won’t work well or sometimes not at all. As a result, we are asking people who are using older versions to upgrade so they can enjoy
more of the delightful features of Messenger.

We will be ending support for messaging in some older mobile app versions of Messenger and Facebook. We have proactively reached out to those affected and have also offered suggestions right in Messenger. These
include updating your app to the latest version, loading an OS update for your device or migrating to Facebook Lite. If your devices do not support the newest versions of Facebook, we recommend going to Facebook.com through your mobile browser.

By the end of March, we will be ending support for messaging on the following older mobile app versions:

Android

Facebook for Android v55, released on November 16, 2015, and below.

Messenger v10, released on August 14, 2014, and below.

iOS

Facebook for iPad v26, released on October 10, 2011, and below.

Messenger v8, released on July 14, 2014, and below.

Facebook for iOS, released on October 10, 2011, and below.

Windows

Facebook for Windows Phone.

Messenger for Windows Phone 8 and 8.1.

Facebook for Windows 8 and 8.1 desktop app.

thomcats · Apr 25, 2020

I want to remove Facebook Messenger

I found today that Facebook had installed Messenger to take care of all my messages. I hate the interface and I hate the idea of an installation I haven't chosen myself. Is there a way to uninstall Messenger on Facebook and get back the simple ordinary text in which way I used to get/send my message? So far I haven't found any setting which will allow me to do so. I would be very grateful for any suggestion.

Kindest Regards
*Think

thomcats · Apr 25, 2020

I want to remove Facebook Messenger

You can type m.facebook.com in the url of your browser on your desktop computer. You will get the old messaging but it changes the whole format size of the screen.

As many others have suggested it probably is best just to get used to it. It's unlikely that Facebook while revert back but may include a feature possibly for the old version.

Just to confirm we are talking about Facebook webversion in a browser on a desktop? Not the windows app via the app store called Messenger?
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You're quite right about the version. I'm out to kill the Facebook Messenger. Thought that possibly removing the Windows app might help, but it doesn't. Will look into the URL you suggested above. Thanks!

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