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Zoom’s success and sudden growth as a result of the rise of teleworking and digital classes has been accompanied by a multitude of complaints about failures in communication security and little respect for users’ privacy.
Facebook launched a new teleconferencing service this Friday, Messenger Rooms, that joins those already offered by the social network company and that is designed to compete with the boom experienced by Zoom due to restrictions on mobility due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Facebook assured that soon Messenger Rooms will allow video calls of up to fifty people (Messenger calls – owned by Facebook – currently only allow eight participants), although at the moment that number is smaller and the limit is different for each user.
As in the case of Zoom, Messenger Rooms users can invite other Internet users to join the video calls through a link that can be shared by both mobile and computer, and there is no need to download any application or create a account (you can participate, therefore, without having a Facebook account).
The new service is completely free, there is no duration limit for video conferencing and it includes features such as augmented reality and image and color filters.
The Facebook announcement comes two days after Zoom, which until before the health crisis was a minor and relatively unknown application, reached 300 million users due to the large increase in activity experienced in March and April.
Zoom’s success and sudden growth as a result of the rise of teleworking and digital classes has been accompanied by a multitude of complaints about failures in communication security and little respect for users’ privacy.
One of the most common problems that its users are encountering is that Internet users who have not been invited appear by surprise in teleconferences, a phenomenon baptized as “zoombombing” and that has caused that educational institutions, governments and companies have stopped using the platform and, in the case of Google, their employees have even been banned.
In addition to Zoom, Messenger Rooms will have to compete with other popular applications from rivals such as Microsoft (owner, among others, Skype), Cisco, Google, Apple and Houseparty.
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