Facebook Messenger Gets Some Fun Holiday Features

Article by George Norman (Cybersecurity Editor)

on 22 Dec 2014

Facebook is celebrating the holiday season by rolling out some fun holiday features for Messenger, the app that lets you chat with any of your Facebook friends.

“The holidays are an important time for people to be connected with their friends and family and Messenger is an easy way to coordinate activities and keep in touch,” announced Peter Martinazzi, Director of Product Management.

Peter Martinazzi’s announcement came accompanied by a list of fun holiday features. The following list of fun holiday features for Messenger:
  • A festive frame for your New Year’s Eve selfies.
  • Snow globe chat heads.
  • Holiday inspired sticker packs.
  • A lightweight new Creative Labs app by the Messenger team called Stickered for Messenger that enables you to add stickers to a photo and send them to friends on Messenger.
Peter Martinazzi’s announcement also came accompanied by some cool images. The following cool images.



Please note that the fun holiday features mentioned above will be available over the holidays.

The Stickered for Messenger app is available for download right now on Google Play.
It will land on Apple’s App Store soon.

And now some, Facebook-related news.

Facebook recently updated its Rooms app and gave it a new Explore button. Click this new button and you will be presented with several interesting rooms. This sort of functionality is quite handy now that thousands of rooms have been created.

Facebook recently presented the most popular topics on the social network this 2014. If you’re curious to know, the most talked-about topic on Facebook this 2014 was the FIFA World Cup.

Facebook also presented the most popular games on the social network this 2014. The title of 2014 Game of the Year went to SGN’s colorful, sweets-themed, match-three Cookie Jam game. And the title of Best New Game went to Bubble Witch 2 Saga, the sequel to the classic bubble shooter.



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