Group chat will get a bit less chaotic with the global rollout of two Facebook Messenger features it was previously testing in Vietnam. Users can now..
Group chat will get a bit less chaotic with the global rollout of two Facebook Messenger features it was previously testing in Vietnam.
Users can now @mention friends in a group chat to send them a special notification to reply to your message so they don’t miss it in a noisy thread. You just type @, then the person’s name or in-thread nickname, and the name will be highlighted and that person will get an alert.
Meanwhile, Facebook is bringing its News Feed Reactions to Messenger so you can reply by attaching a love, smile, wow, sad, angry, thumbs-up or thumbs-down emoji to a specific message. This way you’ll be able to simply express agreement, disagreement, or an emotion about a particular message even if a bunch of other messages have come in since.
Tap and hold on a message to pull up the Reactions menu and select one.
