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Another app had been released by the Facebook, Inc. that called Facebook Messenger. This app basically treat the integrated Facebook message as a stand-alone app. This also mean your Facebook email ( i.e. youruserid@facebook.com ) will also integrated into this app, which includes chatting. The app itself is really neat and bug-free ( for the time I’m using it ). More detailed feature inside!
So, what so good about this app? Is there much difference with the official Facebook app? First, we’ll look at the at the app first!
Here, you need to login again. This is just as what you login on your Facebook app. Though you can actually use only your user ID.
As always, those notification will appear for the first time user. Set it once, and you’re done. However, you still can set the notification back at the Setting panel. I notice that for location service, it didn’t prompt. I’m not sure why, I’ve manually set it at the Setting panel itself.
When you’re in, a welcome message will appear ( once only ) and then you can see your list of friend that you’d messaged before.
If you tap the new message icon ( top right ) a new message box will appear and you can just type your friend name. Facebook will auto search which of your friend you wanted to message.
For the in-app setting, you can choose, whether you wanted a instant push or you wanted a privacy moment. If you do, you can disable the push for once hour or just set back the time you wanted to get alert back. And for the location services, if you wanted to tell your friend, you just have to tap the location icon at the text box. Your location service will be automatically on.
This new app also support the group messaging, as you can see in the web message itself. You however can add or remove your friend from the conversation.
When your friend send / give out his location information, you can check it at the map tab at the setting. Which for my cast, I don’t have anyone to test it out.
The notification is quite decent. as you can see above, ( ignore the iOS 5 notification system ) the notification is pretty much the same. However there’s still no option to disable the message preview on the alert. I hope Facebook, Inc. will update about this feature soon.
The app is decent and didn’t clash with the official app, cause I message a lot using this app. For me it’s good for now, but I’ll still wait for what will be update in future version. This app is still in beta anyways.
TL; DR: This app is awesome and I really love it. For iPhone user you can download it here. This is for those Android user, which I’m not sure if it work. Oh- did I mention it’s FREE?
PS : Ignore my wallpaper and I’d filtered the message text for the screenshots.
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