{"id":268885,"date":"2018-07-19T12:11:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T10:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=268885"},"modified":"2018-07-19T12:15:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T10:15:09","slug":"facebook-messenger-now-lets-users-sync-their-instagram-contacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/it-services\/268885-facebook-messenger-now-lets-users-sync-their-instagram-contacts.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Messenger now lets users sync their Instagram contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has rolled out a new feature to its Messenger app which allows users to sync their Instagram account with the platform, TechCrunch <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/07\/18\/facebook-can-now-sync-your-instagram-contacts-to-messenger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>reported<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new option is available under the People menu in Messenger, next to the option to sync your smartphone contacts with the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook confirmed to TechCrunch it has officially launched the new option.<\/p>\n<p>Once you have synced your Instagram account with Facebook messenger, the app will automatically add contacts from Instagram &#8211; and your Instagram username will become visible to other Messenger users.<\/p>\n<p>A similar feature to this &#8220;connect Instagram&#8221; option was briefly available at the end of 2017, although it never launched to the public.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/268673-yahoo-messenger-is-officially-dead.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Yahoo Messenger is officially dead<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has rolled out a new feature to its Messenger app.<\/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":[49317],"tags":[52533,161,10424,3560],"class_list":["post-268885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-account-data","tag-facebook","tag-instagram","tag-messenger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268885"}],"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=268885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268981,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268885\/revisions\/268981"}],"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=268885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}