Facebook is just about to update its Facebook Messenger to add a new feature: in-store purchase service. Facebook Messenger will allow its users to pay for things and the chat application will serve as a virtual wallet.
According to The Information, the new code of the new iOS application will give Facebook messenger the ability to "pay for goods in person." However, it is not yet disclosed, as of this writing, how Facebook messenger will do that.
In fact, Facebook messenger has an "unreleased feature" that will make its users use the application to pay for purchased items in stores. The Facebook messenger update will also include other features like secret conversations.
Secret conversation is like an encrypted chat similar to what WhatsApp and Telegram. In addition, EnGadget adds that Facebook messenger is also set to sync its users' personal calendar to the application. This will let the calendar automatically add events on Facebook messenger along with an option to "organize" your day. Also, the upcoming update will let Facebook messenger share quotes and status updates to selected friends.
As of now, information about the new Facebook messenger is very limited and enthusiasts still have to wait for further announcements. Meanwhile, Android Authority notes that Facebook recently collaborated with the government's "PRISM domestic spying program."
The new Facebook messenger update that features secret conversations will be quite contradicting to the government's agenda. To recall, there is an ongoing argument about encryption against Apple and WhatsApp.
Hence, when Facebook Messenger adds encrypted messaging, the application will be similar to WhatsApp by using "end-to-end encryption." This, too, will be in contrast to Facebook messenger's existing process of only "encrypting messages" involving the user's unit and Facebook server.
Meanwhile, watch the latest craze on Facebook messenger. The hidden basketball game.
