Several months ago Facebook announced the integration between Messenger and Instagram to exchange private messages from one network to another. Now this feature is extended to group conversations. The novelty, however, will be optional.
It is worth emphasizing that the integration is not a merger, since your Messenger and Instagram accounts continue to exist in parallel as separate entities s, the function of communicating from your Messenger account is simply added with an Instagram account, or vice versa.
On the other hand, now you can also carry out internal surveys in group chats on Instagram . This functionality was already present in Messenger and other competing applications, such as Telegram. We know in advance that Facebook's messaging services are not exactly the fastest when responding to requests for features from their community.
This is what surveys look like in group conversations. On the other hand, Messenger has presented new personalized designs for chats, such as one inspired by the new album by J Balvin.
Messenger is one of the instant messaging applications that offers the greatest number of options for the visual customization of each conversation. It can also be viewed when more than one person in the group is writing at the same time. The icons with the profile photo of each user appear at the bottom left of the application.
On the right screen you can see what the notice that there are two people writing at the same time looks like. Another feature of Messenger that has been replicated on Instagram is that of Watch Together , which -like Share Play in iOS 15- allows the user to share what they are watching with their friends to enjoy the same entertainment simultaneously and be able to comment on it in real time.
WhatsApp, the next step
The parent company's plans to integrate the different services offered by its different products are already known, and in the future they also plan to include WhatsApp . Now that Facebook ties everything to their metaverse project, it will be interesting to see how they fit their different messaging services into such an ambitious vision of the future. Of course, everything that the social network intends to launch is accompanied by controversy.
