Facebook Messenger gets the slickest read receipts in town

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Facebook wants to have the slickest read receipts in town. Photo: Facebook
Facebook wants to have the slickest read receipts in town. Photo: Facebook

Read receipts. They’re the first thing I turn off when I get a new messaging app or iOS device. But Facebook is doubling down on read receipts in the new Facebook Messenger, which has new, blisteringly fast notifications showing you exactly what’s going on with your message after you send it.

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Messaging’s an interesting UI challenge. When you send a message to someone, you’re really just dropping a small note into a bottle and tossing it into the ocean of the web. A lot of people value things like read receipts in a messaging client because it gives a sender assurance nothing has gone wrong in the middle

The new Facebook Messenger takes that to the next level with FacePile read receipts: slick, quick animations that play when your message is sending, sent, delivered, or read. Facebook’s Product Manager Lexi Franklin said, “What were really want is Messenger to feel like the fastest and most reliable mobile messaging product”.

Although I personally feel that read receipts are something of an imposition into my privacy, I think Facebook’s on to something here: fundamentally, all messenger services all do the same thing. It’s the security, speed, and all around polish of the experience that makes you choose one Messaging service over another. If Facebook Messenger can become the slickest messaging app around, it’ll probably become the most popular.

Source: Techcrunch

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