Facebook Messenger is not the best-rated app on the Microsoft Store, but it is still very popular. However, many users do not want it to launch at startup, though the application is configured to launch at startup. If you wish to stop Facebook Messenger from opening …
Facebook is fun sometimes. If you use it, however, your friends will know you’re active on the platform even if you’re not interacting with their posts or sharing anything yourself. Yeah, that’s not so fun. Thankfully, there is a way to disable that functionality. It’s called …
Facebook has a version of Messenger for kids. When it first launched, it was only available on iPhone but has since rolled out to Android and is also available on the Amazon Appstore for its Fire tablets. Appropriately called Messenger Kids, it’s a messaging app designed …
Facebook allows you to use its Messenger platform to make one-on-one video calls and group video calls with up to 50 people through Messenger Rooms, which is like a virtual hangout, where friends can just drop in just to say hi. Here’s everything you need to …
An internet outage is reportedly affecting WhatsApp right now. This regularly happens. It’s not uncommon for popular social media sites and services – including WhatsApp, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and Twitter – to suffer lengthy outages, sometimes lasting hours. By “down” or “outage”, we mean the …
Looking for a secure instant messaging app? Speek.Chat is a free open-source messenger based on Tor hidden network services. No server, no metadata, no ID or phone number! With it, users are only identified via public keys. By sharing the key to others, they can send …
This simple tutorial shows how to install the desktop app of the Signal private messenger in Ubuntu and Debian in 2 official ways. It should also work on their based systems, e.g., Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Kali Linux, and more. Method 1: Install Signal Desktop via …
Facebook Messenger is getting an update that allows everyone to encrypt their direct messages, group chats, and calls. Facebook first began experimenting with end-to-end encryption (E2EE) about six years ago. And it’s taken all that time for the company, which is now called Meta, to finally …
Facebook has introduced a new type of emojis in Messenger – Soundmojis. As evident by their name, these sound emojis are basically emojis with sound. So now, you can send that birthday cake emoji to someone with the happy birthday tune to add extra effects. In …
Facebook Messenger is introducing end-to-end encryption, or E2EE, for voice and video calls. Facebook began trialing end-to-end encryption in 2016 – when it added a mysteriously named “secret conversations” feature to its Messenger mobile app that offered the – admittedly, buried – option to secure one-on-one …
