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Official: Shared Chat for Facebook Messenger and Instagram | Israel today

2020-10-01T09:32:41.578Z


| Social NetworksThe social network has announced a first step in Zuckerberg's vision to produce integration across all platforms More than a year and a half ago, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that he intends to integrate the message box of the popular apps owned by the social network - WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger. Yesterday (Wednesday), the company announced an official updat


The social network has announced a first step in Zuckerberg's vision to produce integration across all platforms

More than a year and a half ago, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that he intends to integrate the message box of the popular apps owned by the social network - WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger. Yesterday (Wednesday), the company announced an official update to send messages to Ingr members To Facebook Messenger - and vice versa, even if they do not have an Instagram account.

"We've been working on it since I shared our vision for a social network focusing on privacy early last year," Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook account.

"Sending private messages is one of the fastest growing forms of communication, and in Facebook apps alone people send more than 100 billion messages daily."

The new messaging tool for both platforms includes disappearing messages, selfie stickers, custom emoji, chat colors, new ways to block unwanted messages, and Watch Together in Messenger, which lets you watch videos with friends during a video call.

Messenger From Facebook Features to Be Integrated Into Instagram Direct: https://t.co/iAJE4QADDR #facebook #messenger #instagram pic.twitter.com/f71tWKLfQB

- Social Pro Daily (@SocialProDaily) September 30, 2020

And what about WhatsApp?

At present its unification is not on the agenda, as combining these services poses a huge infrastructure challenge because it is encrypted from end to end.

But a bigger hurdle may come from regulators, as it is estimated that the reason for the merger of the applications lies in Zuckerberg's concern that in the future there is a chance that the company will be dissolved by regulation.

In addition, Facebook has announced an Accounts Center, a tool for managing settings and cross-app options.

For example, you can set up a one-time registration for all social network apps, or determine how your story will be published in all apps.

And it is important to emphasize: this does not mean that the three apps will become one app.

On the contrary - each one will continue to exist separately.

Source: israelhayom

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