Facebook Messenger Day launches as a Snapchat Stories clone for making plans

Facebook Messenger Day

Today Facebook is globally launching messenger Day to put a utilitarian spin on the sldideshow format. While Snapchat Stories is for retelling what you've done Messenger Day's "Who's up for?" filter and active now indicators help you find friends to chat and meet up with.



Now after gaining millions of users thought test in a dozen countries like Poland and Australia, Messenger Day is rolling out for everyone at the top of  Facebook's chat app with today's iOS and Android updates, plus in desktop messaging threads. The feature lets you share with the public or a custom friend decorated photos and videos that disappear after 24 hours.



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if Messenger Day catches on, it could encourage visual communication through Messenger's newly enhanced camera, jump start chat threads and get friends together offline. And Facebook's VP of messaging David Marcus tells me Day will "probably" insert advertisements between posts to become one of Messenger's first revenue streams. 



There are no punches pulled here. Facebook is unabashedly stealing the best parts of Snapchat   and putting them front and center. That might seem like the opposite of innovation , or at least bad sportsmanship. but Facebook's ideology has always centered around scale, not originality. it wasn't the first social network, but it's the one that got everyone. It didn't invent Stories, but time won't necessarily reward the one that did. just those that them in everyone's pockets.



source : tech crunch