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 ...

Facebook Messenger isn't just built for the group chat you keep with your friends. With support for video and voice calls, it's capable of replacing most of the messaging apps on your phone — so long ...

Facebook just announced it is implementing multiplayer games into the video call feature within Messenger. This functionality allows you to converse with friends and family as you kick their booty in ...

Facebook has announced Watch Together, a new feature that can be used over Messenger video calls and Messenger Rooms to tune into Facebook Watch with friends and family. According to Facebook, there ...

The COVID crisis has kept people apart physically — and with social-distancing norms, a wave of services is pushing out “watch party” features, letting their users virtually stream video together with ...

Five years ago, Facebook began encouraging users to use its standalone Messenger app to chat with their contacts, instead of using the built-in feature in the social network’s mobile apps. It appears ...

Anyone you exchange messages with via Facebook Messenger could know where you’ve been at any point. Chatted with your boss? He could use a newly discovered hack to figure out your sick days weren’t ...

Facebook has been augmenting payments across its properties, including the initiation of payments in Messenger starting in 2015. Despite the expansion of payment capabilities, TechCrunch insisted ...

All of a sudden, mobile payments are all the rage. Stores and banks are lining up to join Apple Pay, investors are promoting Square, and now it looks like Facebook is planning to add mobile payments ...

Social distancing doesn’t mean social isolation. It’s important to keep in touch with friends and family, and Messenger from Facebook is here to help. Yes, you need a Facebook account, but it’s ...