From now on, you have to be extra careful when you go to send a message through Meta’s Messenger app, as the new changes that are coming will let the person you’re talking to know exactly what you’re doing.
Specifically, it will know that floating dots mean you are typing, it will know when you have seen its messages, and it will also know if you took a screenshot (screenshot) of your conversations that were set to disappear.
Yes, one of the features of many messaging apps is the ability to let everything you’ve sent expire after a certain amount of time.
Your reasons for wanting messages to disappear are your own, but when the feature rolled out on Facebook Messenger there was a warning from Mark Zuckerberg to those who might try to get around it with a screenshot.
The Facebook founder demonstrated what this would look like in a conversation between himself and his wife Priscilla Chan, with her turning on disappearing messages and then taking a screenshot that resulted in a notification being posted in the conversation.
Vanish Mode
Vanish Mode was announced in November 2020, with the company revealing that it would be rolling out to Messenger and Instagram in the US “soon”, before rolling out to other countries at a later date.
It allows users to set a timer for how soon they want their message to disappear.
Facebook, or rather Meta, explained: “We’ve also updated the end-of-message feature within our end-to-end encrypted conversations.
“People don’t always want or need their messages to linger, and timer controls allow someone to decide when their messages expire in the chat.
“We’ve updated this setting to give people in the chat more options to choose how long before all new messages disappear, from as little as 5 seconds up to 24 hours.”
Rival messaging apps, including Snapchat, already allow users to set their messages to self-destruct after a few hours.
Source: ot.gr
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