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Last month, Facebook introduced its “Messenger Rooms” alternative to Zoom and Group FaceTime, and launched it to a small subset of users. Now, Facebook has announced that Messenger Rooms is available to everyone.
Today’s Facebook blog post explains more about how the Messenger Room platform works:
You can start and share rooms on Facebook through News, Groups and Events, making it easy for you to visit whenever you want. You can choose who can see and join your room, or remove people from your room and lock the room if you don’t want anyone else to join.
Your “Room” will appear at the top of the News or through notifications. Facebook emphasizes that you have full control over who joins your room, be it someone on your friends list or just those with whom you share the link.
If your friends or communities create rooms that are open to you, you’ll see them on Facebook so you can find things to do and people to hang out with. When you are invited to a room, you can join from your phone or computer, without having to download anything to get started.
We build rooms with privacy and security as a priority so you can feel comfortable connecting with your friends, family and communities. We don’t see or hear your calls, and the person creating the room controls who can join, who sees the room, and whether the room is locked or unlocked for new guests. The creator of the room must be present for the call to start, and the creator can delete guests at any time.
There are still some limitations despite today’s broader release. For example, only Facebook users in North America can create a messaging room from Facebook; Other countries will be limited to creating rooms only from the Messenger application.
You can start by downloading the Facebook app and the Messenger app from the App Store. You can also test the feature in the Facebook Messenger app on macOS.
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