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Wednesday, 1 May 2019

Facebook F8 2019: New design for Facebook, lighter Messenger, WhatsApp Business catalog and more announced

At day 1 of Facebook F8 2019, Facebook announced a lot of new features and changes to its popular social media platforms i.e., Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, etc and the company opened the two-day event with a keynote on how they are building a more privacy-focused social platform. Facebook announced changes and new features to Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram and launched two new virtual reality(VR) headsets. Messenger Firstly, Facebook has announced that they re-built the architecture of Messenger from the ground up to make it faster and lighter than ever before. With the new update, Messenger will now let users discover and watch videos from Facebook together in real time when there are not together with friends or family in their physical living room. A dedicated space has been introduced where users can discover Stories and messages with their closest friends and family. Apart from this, Facebook announced a Messenger Desktop app to make seamless messages from any device. Users can make group video calls, collaborate on projects or multi-task while chatting in Messenger. The desktop app will be available on both Windows and Mac OS. All the newly announced features for Messenger will begin to roll it out globally later this year. Facebook Facebook announced that the company is ...