Facebook today launched a standalone Messenger app for macOS and Windows platforms, allowing users to video and text chat with friends and family from their desktop computer. Along with all of the ...

Messenger previously had a video chat feature similar to that of Apple's FaceTime but the new addition allows you to text during a video chat. The video chat will be reduced to a small square in ...

Much like Google’s similarly child-friendly video app YouTube Kids, Messenger Kids is a retooled, ... pre-teen makeover complete with text and photo chat threads, group video calling with whacky ...

The launch makes Messenger the first popular western messaging app with group video chat. It’s managed to beat FaceTime/iMessage, Google Duo, and Snapchat to the punch.

The app includes voice and video chats, text messages, group chats, and support for most multimedia formats, such as GIFs and video. It’s powerful, accessible, and popular. It’s also free with ...

It’s not polite to call someone out of the blue anymore. Best to text them first. That’s why Facebook thinks video calling will live naturally inside Messenger. Today, Messenger is launching ...

Facebook is intent on giving you more communication options beyond text messaging. The social network’s current obsession is video, and today it is introducing instant video to its Messenger ...

Video chat isn't functional in the iPhone and Android apps yet, ... Facebook also made text-based group messaging a standard part of the social network that works outside the new groups feature.

Facebook added video conversation into its Messenger app this fall to encourage users to treat the app as their default communication method, not only locally but internationally. To date, more ...

That’s on top of regular text messaging, group chat, video, photo sharing, music sharing and more. Pros: Excellent quality video calling across a range of platforms.

You can create a video chat room via Facebook or the Messenger app and invite up to 50 people to join a video call -- even if they don't have a Facebook account. There are no time limits on calls.