Facebook Messenger: New functions for birthday
Facebook is giving its Messenger a few additional features for its birthday. We reveal how old the messenger is getting and what's new.
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It's hard to believe, but Facebook Messenger has been around for a decade. For its tenth birthday, Faebook has "put together a birthday package with 10 functions ... that will help you share more memories with your friends and family and feel closer," said Loredana Crisan, Vice President of Messaging Products at Facebook. in a blog post. We present the new features for the birthday that Facebook is currently rolling out piece by piece.
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Poll game: how do my friends see me?
Among other things, Facebook is starting a survey game in Messenger. This is reminiscent of the yearbooks of American schools: Who is most likely to become president later? Who is the first to start a family? The years vote on such questions and the result ends up in the yearbook. Similar surveys are now also available on Facebook Messenger, on topics such as: "Who is most likely to give presents for a birthday?" - "Who fights zombies while everyone else runs away?" - "Who is most likely to miss their flight?" The users can also think of questions themselves. If you want to start a poll game in your group chat, tap on "Polls" and select the tab with the desired question. Then specify the names of the chat participants who are eligible for the answer.
Is Microsoft replacing classic Xbox voice chat with Skype? According to a rumor, Microsoft systems will in future only communicate via the online service - including the Xbox 720.
Google chat recently unveiled its new emojis that will move into Android 12 this year. Google Chat users can look forward to the new selection. As Google announced in the Workspace blog, the revised versions will be distributed to Android users with immediate effect. The rollout will take place until mid-August. This change is also planned for the web and iOS version, but there is no date yet. Google promises to come around the corner with an update as soon as there is something to announce. The new emojis can be used by all Workspace, G-Suite Basic and Business customers.
With a new feature, switching smartphones should be made easier, at least with WhatsApp. In the future, Messenger will be able to take over all chats from iOS to Android devices and vice versa. But for the time being, only Samsung users will be able to enjoy the feature.
Reddit, the online message board where users can chat about a variety of topics, expects to raise $700 million in a new investment round. The company is worth more than $10 billion on paper. The company says it wants to use the money for "strategic investments", especially internationally. In doing so, new ways to reach the Reddit community must be developed and advertising opportunities strengthened. This will also create additional jobs. The American financial service provider Fidelity Management and several previous lenders, among others, invested in this round. Earlier this year, Reddit also raised several hundred million dollars in an investment round and then hired a financial director. Also, the platform has already expanded to the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia. Other countries follow. The online platform generated more than $100 million in ad revenue for the first time in the quarter, according to Reddit. The internet forum also aims to develop new ways of connecting communities through video and audio.
The forum platform Reddit is now worth more than ten billion US dollars. The operators use the wisdom of their customers to position themselves for the future. That works very well.
Google and Facebook are investing in new and expanded submarine cable networks with regional telecommunications providers. While the "Apricot" project better connects six countries in Asia, the 2Africa network is being expanded by four new branches for additional countries and island regions. The projects should offer faster and more stable internet connections in the connected regions from 2024 and 2023 respectively. The new Apricot submarine cable network connects Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Guam, Indonesia and the Philippines over a length of 12,000 kilometers. It is an addition to two submarine cables between the USA and Indonesia, which the two data companies have announced as "Bifrost" and "Echo". According to Google, the new project should be completed in 2024 and initially offer a capacity of more than 190 terabits per second. Facebook is also working on the criticized submarine cable project PCLN. The Pacific Light Cable Network was announced in 2017 as the first direct such connection between the USA and Hong Kong. That has been delayed given the tension between China and the US. In the end the resistance had become too strong. The last section to Hong Kong is no longer to be added. So far, the cable connects San Francisco with Taiwan and the Philippines.
Facebook is advancing its efforts to gain more control over the Internet infrastructure. To this end, the company is involved in two underwater cable projects, which are intended to provide better Internet connections in Africa and Asia, and works with major players in various industries. On Monday, the 2Africa project, on which Facebook is working with the telecommunications groups Orange and Vodafone, announced that four new countries would be connected: Angola, Nigeria and the island states of Seychelles and Comoros. The aim of the project is to build an underwater ring of fiber optic cables around Africa and to connect 26 countries to it. Commissioning is planned for 2023. Facebook had already announced on Sunday that the company is participating in the Apricot project in Asia. The 7,500-mile underwater cable system is expected to connect Japan, Taiwan, Guam, the Philippines, Indonesia and Singapore. Google is also involved in this initiative, which should go into operation in 2024, as the group announced on Monday.
Get the most out of WhatsApp with this trick. Surely you have ever been browsing your favorite social network and suddenly you see a news that interests you but you cannot read it at the moment for a matter of time, therefore, what you do is copy the link of the article and save it in the mobile notepad. This is how you accumulate websites that you don't get to read because you don't usually enter the team's notebook; However, WhatsApp is an application that you use daily and this time we will teach you to create a chat with yourself so that you can store everything you want. Next we will tell you the steps.
