Facebook’s new video-conferencing service debuted in the U.S., Mexico and Canada on Thursday, with the rest of the world set to get the new feature next week. With the coronavirus pandemic forcing the ...

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 ...

WhatsApp has been updated to allow users to create group video chats with up to 50 people on the social platform, thanks to an integration with Facebook's recently announced Messenger Rooms feature.

The real standout feature is how your Messenger Room can live on your Facebook profile, enabling friends or family members to spontaneously drop in and hang out with you over the video chat. When he's ...

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Back in 2014, Facebook unveiled a standalone iOS mobile app called Rooms that let people create message boards where users could discuss anything they wanted with pretty much anyone. But Rooms ...

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Going forward, those in Australia and Canada will have access to Rooms inside Facebook Messenger. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying ...

All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Mashable may earn an affiliate commission. Messenger Rooms allows you ...

Facebook Messenger has built an unlaunched feature called Rooms that lets groups publicly chat about different subjects and events. Buried in Messenger’s iOS app’s source code are multiple references ...

Facebook’s experiment with semi-anonymous social networking centered around interests, via a standalone app called Rooms, failed. But the learnings from that earlier experiment have now popped up in ...