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SMS Support and Multiple Accounts On Facebook Messenger? Checked!

February 12, 2016 By Chen Lai Leave a Comment

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Rumor has it Facebook is about to introduce new features to Messenger and we can hardly wait to try them!

Did anyone say they would love to have access to SMS support and multiple accounts on Facebook Messenger? Checked! It seems like Facebook is reading your mind. The giant company is testing, as we speak, both of these features.

SMS support used to be part of Facebook Messenger until the social media site removed it back in November 2013 because not a lot of people were using it. Another reason why SMS text support was dropped from the platform was that, at the time, Facebook wanted its users to fully adopt its messaging platform. Now, it seems that the company has changed its mind about it especially since it has become a standard for other messaging apps like WhatsApp.

According to The Android Police, some users were recently seeing a new SMS Settings pane that allowed them to use Messenger as an SMS client. When texting a friend in Messenger with the option enabled, the prompt in the text input box would read ‘Write an SMS message.’ The messages sent as SMS texts would then appear as purple bubbles, instead of Messenger’s usual blue, the blog also said.

Some users were seeing a new SMS Settings pane. The message sent as SMS would then appear as purple bubbles.

The company confirmed about the test which is currently available to only a small number of Android users in USA. A Facebook spokesperson declared:

It’s a really simple way to get, see, and respond to all your SMS messages in just one app.

As if this news wouldn’t be enough, SMS support is not the only brand new change coming to Messenger. Facebook has also announced support for multiple accounts in the app for Android users. The new multiple accounts feature is likely targeted at users who share their devices within the family or friends. This addition will mean that multiple people can log in to Messenger from a single device.

On that note, Messenger for Android has added a new section called ‘Accounts,’ which lets you add and remove accounts on the app. These can also be password-protected so only the account holder can read their messages. Others will only see notifications that a message has been received and not it’s content. Unlike the SMS option, this feature is available around the world.

Regarding the second attribute for Android users, Facebook confirmed the rumors, pointing out the fact that millions of people share phones with their family and friends and until now there hasn’t been an easy way for these people to access their individual Messenger accounts from shared devices.

Even though SMS is still one of the default ways people communicate, Facebook’s only option to siphon value from those messages is to try and route users through its own service. From the looks of it, if it makes its way to a wider audience, these features would mark a significant and aggressive push from Facebook to eclipse SMS and long-time US rival iMessage.

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Zuckerberg Is Back and Sales Are Up

January 28, 2016 By Jason Leathers Leave a Comment

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Mark Zuckerberg is now the sixth richest person in the world.

After a paternity leave that lasted only two months, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is back and sales are up and running. According to the latest numbers, Facebook hit in December 2015 935 million users. The social media platform hit 18 billion dollars in sales in the previous year, as opposed to 12 billion dollars in 2014.

Zuckerberg’s company managed to shatter the estimates that Wall Street gave at the beginning of the year by surpassing them with no more than 3.6 billion dollars. This rise is due to the growth of users and the advertising that Facebook promotes on tablet and smartphone screens.

The social media platform now has approximately 935 million users on mobile devices, as of last December. This adds up to the fact that now almost 80 percent of the company’s revenue comes from the advertising that Facebook promotes on tablet and smartphone screens. It seems that mobile advertising wasn’t the flaw that everybody thought it is a couple of years ago.

Facebook’s success comes as a hard hit for social media rival Twitter. Even though Mark Zuckerberg did not use the competition’s name when making the sales comparison, which was an act of fair-play on his part, it is pretty obvious that Twitter was the platform in question.

The blow is even harder for the character-limited social media platform since it has been shaken up in the past few weeks by executive turmoil, mass resignation, a stock that is declining rapid and a stagnation in the numbers of the users.

One of the department heads from Twitter actually left the company to work for Facebook’s branch, Instagram. Zuckerberg’s company is really decimating its rivals. And what it doesn’t destroy, it buys, see Instagram for an example.

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is back and sales are up, making him the sixth richest person in the world. And he took some time after discussing the company’s roaring numbers to talk about the reason he was absent for two months with the company.

Recently the Zuckerberg family added a new member, Max, his little daughter. Apparently Facebook’s creator and one of the richest people in the world was so impressed by the little bundle that he began thinking about the legacy the world is leaving to its children. He stated that he wants to create a better future for the next generations and he will give away impressive amounts of his fortune for this purpose.

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Facebook Allow Users To Unfollow Boring Friends From News Feed

November 9, 2014 By Brian Galloway Leave a Comment

As per the recent reports revealed, now Facebook allows its users to hide boring friends from their News Feed. Facebook is enduring CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s dream of turning the social networking site into “the ideal, personalized newspaper for everyone in the world” by giving users more control over their News Feed.

Facebook announced Friday that the company is adding up a new News Feed settings page that will show users, which people and pages they interact with most frequently and those they’ve recently unfollowed. The new setting will enable users to add and delete people and pages from the News Feed more easily based on user interest. Currently, this feature is available on the mobile and desktop versions of the site, and within the coming weeks, it will be available on the Facebook app too.

The gray arrows that pop up in the top right corners of the posts could help users to hide stories they’re not interested in reading. In that case, they can select whether they’d like to see less from that person or unfollow them altogether.

Facebook announced at the start of this year that it would start cracking down on clickbait and News Feed’s hyperbolic headlines by assessing how much time users spent reading a link and whether they were liking and sharing it.

Facebook’s new Ebola donate feature would help to raise direct funds for Ebola affected West Africa

November 6, 2014 By Jason Leathers Leave a Comment

Facebook has announced a new Donate feature for curtailing the deadly Ebola disease. This feature would soon start popping up on Facebook user’s News Feeds. This initiative highlights three charitable organizations to direct funds: International Medical Corps, American Red Cross, and Save the Children.

Earlier, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg also donated $25 million to the Centers for Disease control and Prevention towards the Ebola crisis, and he is not stopping on that as well because he wants people to take out time from liking their friends wedding or baby photos in order to take the Ebola cause seriously.

Facebook is also collaborating with UNICEF on an education campaign to integrate into users News Feeds that will educate the public on Ebola symptoms and the outbreak’s status in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.

Medical workers in afflicted countries will also benefit directly from Facebook’s coming emergency communications capacity to improve voice and data services in collaboration with NetHope.

“Response organizations estimate that for each patient, at least 10 other people will provide health care, contact tracing and other services that may require telecommunications, and improvements are most important in rural areas where infrastructure is weakest and case loads are highest,” Naomi Gleit, VP of Product Management and Chris Daniels, VP of Internet.org, said in a statement on the new initiatives.

Mark Zuckerberg Impresses Chinese Audience through Mandarin

October 23, 2014 By Brian Galloway Leave a Comment

Although China has banned Facebook but still it looks like Mark Zuckerberg has become one of the most favorite people among Chinese.

Recently, the co- founder participated in a question and answer session at the Tsinghua University. The entire audience laughed when Mark Zuckerberg greeted them in Mandrain.

Zuckerberg talked on different topics to shed some light upon the strategies behind the foundation of a new company.

Moreover, he discussed some personal matters such as favorite color, Favorite dish and much more. The 30 years old famous man also shared his experience of marrying a Chinese girl.

In that half an hour session Zuckerberg expressed that he want to learn everything related to the Chinese Culture. Therefore, he is trying to speak and understand this language. He stated that learning a new culture or language is more like a challenge.

This is not the first time when Facebook co founder appeared on these kinds of speaking sessions. Earlier, Zuckerberg talked in different tech conferences and business meetings which held in China.

Facebook is blocked in China for several years. It is not the only website that is officially banned by the Chinese authorities. The country has also blacklisted Twitter, Instagram and numerous other websites for various reasons.

Mark Zuckerberg [FB CEO] To Spend Billions For The Publicity Of The Internet

September 7, 2014 By Jason Leathers Leave a Comment

The creator and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, said he and his company striving to do everything possible to drive people online. Now it is reported by the Mark Zuckerberg itself that inside the company would be willing to pay “billions of dollars in the next decade” to spread web access.

Facebook has a project called Internet.org with which they aims to make Internet available for everyone. The initiative of the company is to focus on developing countries, where traditional mobile phone use has been already popular but not the Internet.

Internet.org recently started suggesting Internet access to customers in Zambia. Particularly, this business proposal allows connection to visit sites and Facebook public services without any extra cost to users. That way Facebook searches for an easy access to the network and for the community to take benefit of their service users continue to spread.

This business proposal is far from over Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed that his initiative is to invest money for what is necessary to meet the goal to bring the Internet to everyone. In comments reported by Reuters, Zuckerberg explained. “What really matters is connecting everyone and even if it means that Facebook has to spend billions of dollars over the next decade to make that plan possible, I think that in the long term will be good for us and for everyone”.

The fact is that Mark Zuckerberg’s aim can be fully accomplished, and Mark will provide Internet in those countries and areas where there is presently no access to the internet, this is really helping these populations and would create potential new users for this site.

Thus the social network assists people to promote this site with the traffic and open up new opportunities for the economic development. On the basis of a survey on the internet users, the International Telecommunications Union has said that later this year the total number of people who have access to the Internet on the planet will increase to 3,000 million. Facebook is already having an active list 1.300 million users, so this means almost half of internet users are active on facebook so the company could get help in advertising their site as well as their service will also continue to grow.

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