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 ...

With the Messenger desktop app shutting down, it's time to quickly save your Messenger desktop chats before they're gone forever.

The microblogging platform X has revamped its messenger. The new version offers new features known from competitors.

Facebook has apparently started merging the chat services of Instagram and Messenger on mobile devices, following through with a plan that was revealed in early 2019. For some people, a notification ...

Chat bots were central to Facebook Messenger’s strategy three years ago. Now they’re being hidden from view in the app along with games and businesses. Facebook Messenger is now removing the Discover ...

Thanks to a new direct-message integration, users on Messenger and Instagram can chat with each other across apps, Facebook said Wednesday. The integration, part of the parent company’s strategy to ...

Instagram is the latest of Facebook’s services to gain support for its new group video chat feature, Messenger Rooms. Follow along for a look at how it works… Facebook announced and rolled out ...

In the early days of the internet, Facebook was a cool thing that many young people used to upload entire albums from a single night out. In recent times, it has evolved to become a great way to keep ...

From virtual cocktail hours to online classrooms, the COVID-19 pandemic has turned Zoom into everyone’s go-to social network. Now Facebook wants to kick the video-conferencing interloper off its turf.

We were warned by Mark Zuckerberg last November, but now it’s really happening: Facebook has started notifying users that they will no longer be able to send or receive chat messages from within its ...

The biggest update for WhatsApp is a new warning that will pop up if you try to share your screen during a video call with a ...

CNN and NBCUniversal’s Fandango are among the first in the media and entertainment biz to tap into Facebook Messenger “bots,” which let users get automated info from artificial-intelligence agents.