Instagram announces new interaction features with Messenger

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Facebook's long-standing plans are clear: unify as much as possible all its platforms and allow the interrelation between them to be maximum in every way. Following this roadmap, Instagram announced yesterday the launch of new functionalities that, according to them "are part of a new message experience."

The first of all the functionalities has been called "See Together". This functionality will allow you to synchronize IGTV, Reels, TV shows, movies and videos in real time to watch them through video chat with friends. On the occasion of this new functionality, They have announced two new series to be able to see in this way and exclusively: Post Malone's Celebrity World Pong League and Here for It with Avani Gregg.

To be able to view either of the two new series, it would be enough to start a video chat with friends within Messenger or Instagram, add multimedia content and select the series in the "Television and Cinema" section.

The second functionality that they have introduced is nothing more than themes to personalize the chats. With the available themes, you can even customize the reactions to the messages. This functionality reaches, in the same way, to both platforms: Instagram and Messenger.

The third and last functionality has been called "ephemeral mode" and will be available soon. This functionality it is nothing more than a copy of how Snapchat works, where the messages you send will be deleted and disappear from the conversation once you leave it. In this way, we can share messages at a certain time if we want it to be something specific and that there is no record (even if we make a capture in this mode, it will report it to us).

Sometimes a message is spontaneous, something you want to share in the moment but don't want it to be saved forever. Now, you can send memes, GIFs or reactions to share what you think but cannot always say, and be sure that that message will not remain in the chat history.

This functionality would be oriented to use between people who follow each other on Instagram or are connected on Messenger and through non-group chats. Activating the ephemeral mode or not will be optional and will be gradually deployed around the world. It is currently only available in the United States and "in a handful of other countries."

If the integration between Instagram and Messenger was already a reality, it seems that now Facebook has plans to encourage this interconnection with new functionalities for both chats.


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