Queenie Wong was a senior writer for CNET News, focusing on social media companies including Facebook's parent company Meta, Twitter and TikTok. Before joining CNET, she worked for The Mercury News in ...

Facebook’s messaging application doesn’t support encryption, but an open-source chat program, Cryptocat, has made it possible to chat with friends there over an encrypted connection. The program’s ...

Facebook Chat has evolved to enable more than simple one-to-one chatting. You can now talk to all members of a group using the Group Chat feature, for example. You can also invite multiple friends to ...

Facebook stores all messages sent and received in Facebook Chat even after you close the chat window to end a conversation with a friend, business contact or colleague. The social network groups the ...

A new feature in Facebook Messenger enables you to add a friend to an ongoing group video call. Previously, you would have had to hang up on the call, add the friend, and then reconnect. This is a new ...

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From weather to shopping, the chat bot experience is only just beginning. — -- Get ready to make friends with chat bots on Facebook. The first few chat bots have settled into Facebook Messenger ...

There is a Facebook Messenger chat bot for Starbucks’ highly controversial pumpkin spice latte and I spent an hour of my morning talking to it because I have a very hard time politely ending ...

Over a year ago, Facebook announced that they planned to support Facebook Chat over XMPP/Jabber, the same protocol that Google Talk uses, so people could use Facebook Chat in their favorite IM ...

Is that a message from some rando, a spammer, or the nice guy you met yesterday? Facebook Messenger wants to give you some clues before you consider responding. The app will now surface publicly ...

Steve O'Hear, former ZDNet blogger, now turned TechCrunch reporter, posted earlier today a serious breach in Facebook privacy, allowing any user to view one of their friend's live chat window. The ...