It’s just a few days before Christmas and all throughout your Facebook, all creatures are stirring, especially your Messenger. Okay, we’re awful at writing “poems” but the point we’re trying to make of course is that there are all kinds of stirrings on your Messenger this most festive of seasons as Facebook tries to bring even more Christmas cheer through new features like Photo Magic, more personalization options, and of course holiday themed virtual decorations.
Photo Magic has been available in limited, testing mode for some weeks now, and now when you take a lot of pictures during parties, dinners, reunions and other Christmas events, it will definitely come in handy. If you turn this feature on, it will automatically allow Facebook’s face recognition feature to work its, well, magic. After you take a picture, it will automatically prompt you to send the pictures to your friends who are on Messenger. If it’s for a group of people, it will create a Messenger group thread for you and then cue up the photos it thinks you should send them. If you choose to send the photo, just press send, but you also have the option to cancel it.
Meanwhile, you get Christmas themed features on the Messenger, with holiday emojis, nicknames, and even color choices. Just tap the info button on your conversation, and anyone in the group can change the colors, emojis, as many times as they want. You can also send snowflakes, a snowman, Santa, and other Christmassy stickers to your friends. You can also use once again the snow globe effect for your chat heads.
For the more pop culture-oriented, you have the Frozen sticker packs once again, as well as the Star Wars special pack to keep you company. To enjoy all of these, you need to update your Messenger to the latest version.
SOURCE: Facebook
