Meta has an exciting news for Liverpool fans, as it has rolled out a new outfit collection for the avatars, featuring exclusive Liverpool FC clothing items.
The virtual apparel is available for purchase in the Meta Avatars Store on all of Meta’s platforms - Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram. “The collection includes both a Liverpool FC home and away kit, as well as a pair of LFC label fashion wear looks,” says Meta.
In an attempt to revive engagement across Facebook, Meta is
launching a new Community Chat option for Messenger that it has created to facilitate
topic-based discussion groups. “We’re building Community Chats as a new way to
connect with people who share your interests,” says Meta. The social company is
currently testing the option with a limited number of users.
Community Chats are sort of a mix of Messenger and Facebook
Groups where users can connect with each other. More specifically, users can create
Facebook Groups, start chats and audio channels, and invite others to join
their groups from within Messenger via Community Chats.
To further
expand its avatar feature, Meta is launching a new avatar fashion store that
features a variety of collections from big fashion houses like Balenciaga,
Prada and Thom Browne. Meta
plans to launch the store across Facebook, Instagram and Messenger.
In addition
to this, Meta has plans of allowing digital creators and brands to design their
own fashion items for the store and sell them, which ultimately makes this initiative
a monetization tool as well.
Meta is working on providing end-to-end encryption across
all of its messaging apps. Since last year, the company has been testing end-to-end
encryption for group chats, including voice and video calls. Mark Zuckerberg
recently announced that all Messenger users will now be able to implement
encryption in all group chats in the app.
This step towards improved security and privacy on Messenger
is part of Meta’s broader plan of cross-communication among its messaging apps
WhatsApp, Messenger and IG Direct. The inboxes in each app will be synchronized
and the same data protections will be applied to each.
While Meta is ensuring better security with these updates, it is also a concern among people as the approach may be against law enforcement policies that are responsible for tracking potential criminal activity. Increased security in the form of encryption limits the capacity to track perpetrators of crimes, hence becoming a hinderance in investigative processes. Nevertheless, Meta persistently believes in providing more freedom to users in terms of choosing whom they share their data with and to what extent.
Messenger is introducing a bunch of new features based on
the holiday season, including new AR effects, Soundmoji options featuring
Taylor Swift’s album, and a new option of bill-splitting within group chat
threads.
The interactive AR features are part of the new group
effects for video calls and can be accessed by multiple people in a group video
chat. Messenger has collaborated with some of the high-profile influencers from
other apps for these effects, like King Bach, TikTok star Bella Poarch and Zack
King. Of course, this is part of Facebook’s attempt to attract young users to
its platform; something that it has been lacking.
For a similar purpose, Facebook has added new Soundmoji options featuring the world’s favorite artist Taylor Swift and her new album Red. Soundmojis are Messenger’s emoji characters with audio snippets that can be played by users when they receive a message with a Soundmoji.
On the 4th of October, all of Facebook’s services
including its main platform, Instagram, and Messenger, suddenly stopped working
for about six hours. Previously in 2019, a similarly bad outage had happened to
Facebook for a period of 24 hours, which affected small businesses and content
creators more than anyone else.
*Sincere* apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now. We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible
— Mike Schroepfer (@schrep) October 4, 2021
Facebook presented the explanation for the recent outage later in the day, claiming that a configuration issue was the culprit behind it. A day later, engineers at Facebook have offered further explanation, saying that a routine maintenance interfered in the backbone connection between data centers at Facebook, resulting in the DNS servers going offline.
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