“FacePile Read Receipts”- The Latest Feature in Facebook Messenger

When it comes to chatting, every millisecond counts. The lesser time is takes for the interaction, the more lively you feel in the chat room. However, when it comes to texting, concepts like hmmm, or nods have completely lost, there is no indication whatsoever to tell that the other person is listening to you.

Facebook’s Latest steps: 

Now Facebook messenger has taken a giant foot forward in terms of improvement in speed in their entire version apart from adding the new animation, which indicates the sender if their message is sending, sent, delivered, as well as read. According to the company, they have not followed the currently used concept of grey text indicating the information but the new animation will use the photo of your friend and indicate who is actually in conversation with you.

The company came up with the concept of Facepile design nearly 5 years ago and it was initially meant for a plug-in to show if your friend liked any website. It has now be modified for broader usage and to indicate as to which friend has seen and read your text messages. At present, the new messenger design will be rolled out in Europe and United States of America on Android and iOS platform. The company is planning for a worldwide release later on.

According to Lexy Fraklin, Product manager, they wanted a messenger, which will let the user feel Facebook messenger as the fastest and the most reliable mobile messaging product. In order to improve the efficiency of the application on all types of devices, the company has made lot of modification and put in lot of efforts towards minimizing the latency. As per Facebook’s new head of Messenger and former PayPal president, MarcusDavid, whether anyone agrees or not, speed is very important and everybody wants to feel the speed.

The FB is expecting to gain a competitive advantage with this new chat feature. When it comes to the slickest and the fastest chat application, KakaoTalk, WeChat, Kik and many among other are all racing together. Apart from messaging, Facebook have other global competitors in the form of Line’s stickers, Snapchat’s visual messaging, Twitter’s worldwide town square, and Google’s video chat. At present the company’s strategy is to focus on utility, which will drive lock-in to their completely social platform, while there competitors are still trying to pull out money from the direct messaging. The company has already been making lot of money from the number of ads that are being posted in the newsfeed.

What is more? 

The company has also launched “Stickered For Messenger”, which is an app for pasting stickers on top of photos before being sent. According to Franklin, the company has many things in their mind and working on more to make the user’s experience very cool. The first thing they have achieved is the fastest and clearest chat platform. Now the company is looking towards the newsfeed. The main aim of the FacePile was to ensure that you can check the message read as soon as possible and get on with work, rather then waiting for response.

How to create Custom Facebook Page

You may have noticed that Facbook has made changes in their layout in recent days. Facebook pages are now represented using new timeline view instead the custom platforms. Many users now usually have owned page in Facebook, in which they can add cover photos and they are also allowed to highlight important stories by pinning them to the top of their timeline.

Pages in Facebook by default have included several features such as Events, Photos, Video and Notes. Some people demand for extra features such as Google Map, Youtube videos and may be even Calendar events. In order to perform you need to create an app that supports this thing in your profile. There by custom Facebook pages can be created to fulfill your wish. If you thing this isn’t possible let me show some thing for instance.

Nokia has created an official page that signifies has a Welcome Tab highlighting some their recent launches, Nike featured Location Tab that highlights location of Nike stores across the country. Apple’s App Store page has created a Tab which describes their list of Top selling Apps and games.

How do these Big names have created their own Facebook pages? Ever get into a feeling that they are big brands and hire skilled labors to do so. Even you can create your own Apps in Facebook without writing a single code.

How to Build custom Apps for Facebook Pages

Facebook Apps can be embedded into pages by just using IFRAME tag. It is similar like embedding in HTML web page, if you are able to embed MP3w, Google Maps, YouTube videos, Google calendar, photos and lots more you can also embed into Facebook in similar way.

Just prior to getting into actual process you have to locate a lay to host the HTML, CSS, JavaScript and several files associated with it to your web page. It is Desire to go with Google Sites because it offers free WYSIWYG which provides tool to edit page. Google Sites is integrated with Google Analystics to you can track out who visit your page often. It isn’t exciting that you can view peoples who visit your site, Facebook doesn’t offer you this feature but by custom mode you can avail by this Google Sites.

Some of the other major reason to choose Google Sites is that, it offers secured pages over (https) and (http) connections. This is awfully important since majority Facebook user would have turned on “secure browsing” in their security settings. If your page is going to be http then it will display a warning message. So Google sites must always be preferred.

These steps are not complicated, hence even normal Facebook user can try to do so on knowing the technologies like JavaScript a little bit not up to depth. Try out these steps to create your own custom Facebook page and watch out to be unique from others.