Facebook's Messenger Kids app has so far been strict about adding friends. Early on, it even required that children count their parents as friends. The social network is ready to loosen things up, ...

Learn about merging your contacts so you can keep chatting with friends when the Messenger service is retired next year. Nicole Cozma has an affinity for all things tech, but also dabbles in amateur ...

Facebook is making it easier for kids to add their friends on its under-13 chat app, Messenger Kids. Starting today, the company is rolling out a new feature that will allow kids to request parents’ ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tech enthusiast, born in Ann Arbor and educated at Michigan State Jul 24, 2017, 07:00pm EDT Dec 10, 2021, 08:28am EST This article ...

To win chat, Facebook Messenger must be as accessible as SMS, yet more entertaining than Snapchat. Today, Messenger pushes on both fronts with a series of announcements at Facebook’s F8 conference.

It's the 2017 version of butt dialing—accidentally placing a call to a friend through Facebook Messenger. And to make matters worse, the calls placed with Facebook Messenger use your cell phone plan’s ...