{"id":245043,"date":"2018-01-17T09:33:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T07:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=245043"},"modified":"2018-01-17T09:35:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T07:35:19","slug":"facebooks-big-plans-for-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/245043-facebooks-big-plans-for-messenger.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook&#8217;s big plans for Messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook Messenger has 1.3 billion users, and the company has now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/david-marcus\/six-trends-for-2018-what-to-watch-from-messenger\/10157040374369148\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>revealed its plans<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to improve its service to these users.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook wants to make Messenger \u201cthe best way to spend time together when you\u2019re apart\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to make Messenger the best way to organise a night out with friends, do your homework, or simply connect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This will be achieved by focusing on the areas listed below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Realtime communications<\/strong> \u2013 Invest in real-time communications to make sure users can easily stay connected.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Group chats<\/strong> &#8211; Messenger group chats will receive more features.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Simplification<\/strong> \u2013 Invest in \u201cmassively simplifying and streamlining Messenger this year\u201d.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Visual messaging<\/strong> \u2013 Focus on visual messaging, and continue to drive these features in future.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Customer Care<\/strong> \u2013 Evolve Messenger as a true customer care channel.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Marketing Channel<\/strong> \u2013 Users can expect investments in rich messaging from companies through Messenger.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/243602-mark-zuckerberg-plans-to-fix-facebook-in-2018.html\">Mark Zuckerberg plans to fix Facebook in 2018<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has revealed its plans for Messenger in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":184104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[161,8887,3560],"class_list":["post-245043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-messenger","tag-messenger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245069,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245043\/revisions\/245069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}