Facebook's messenger service is one of the most popular messaging platforms out
there but in case you haven't noticed it can actually be kind of confusing and
difficult to work with sometimes. In today's video we're gonna talk about
Facebook Messenger and how they're actually releasing their new update
called messenger 4 and how they've simplified this process, how they've made
it easier for people to chat with friends and how they've made it even
more fun to use so stay tuned here we go.
Alright welcome back and thank you for joining us my name is Jordan Steen also
known as Cereal Entrepreneur and at this channel we talk all about social media
marketing, starting an agency or building a personal brand or really just building
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hand corner so you get updates to all of our future content. So like I said in the
beginning, Facebook has just released information about updating their
messenger platform and it's gonna make it decluttered, it's gonna make it easier
to find friends and message those friends, it's gonna make the messenger
platform itself just more interactive and engaging so that way you actually
want to use their platform because that's what they want. They want people
using their platform instead of using their text message service or instead of
using you know Google Hangouts or Skype or anything like that
oh and free marketing agency owners who are trying to land clients make sure you
stay tuned to the end of this video and I'll show you one other video that we
put together where we use facebook Messenger to lian clients for our agency
so stay tuned for that. So Facebook recently did a study where they asked
people what is the most important feature or aspect of a messenger
platform to them and when they were asked that 7 out of 10 people said that
simplicity was the most important thing and so Facebook took that to heart and
they've actually kind of revamped their entire strategy so let's talk about a
few of the things that they plan to do in the messenger platform that's gonna
make it better for you as a marketer and as a user. So the first thing is
messenger 4 is actually simplified the navigation so at that very at the very
bottom of the messenger like screen you'll see all of the navigation areas
and they're simplifying that because they know it is complicated and in my
opinion it's complicated as hell and I use it all the time so that's gonna be
one of the first things they're changing so I'm interested to see what they're
gonna do there I really leave a comment below this video do you
think it's something that they're actually going to they're going to
eliminate some of those buttons or do you think they'll add more let me get
your thoughts because I want to see if you're paying attention because if you
say add more then you're not paying attention so the answer to your question
is Facebook is actually dumbed it down to three tabs. There's going to be chat,
people and discover so the first one the chats tab is the one that houses all of
your conversations it's not only going to be the one-to-one conversations but
it's also going to house the group conversations now so you'll see
everything in one's fluid stream the second one is gonna be the people tab
and the people tab is where you're gonna find all of your friends whether they're
online or not usually it only shows your online friends because people have
enough friends to where they'll have some online and it won't show the
offline ones but I'm sure it'll still show the offline friends too but that's
really all that tab is fourth they're simplifying it down to just be one tab
instead of a groups tab and a friend's tab and all of the other tabs that they
have related to people and then finally number three is the discover tab and the
discover tab is one that they're going to use more for business so you'll find
things like places you want to travel games that you might be interested in
playing or things that you might want to do around your local area so the
messenger tab is actually again getting more focused in that marketer mentality
now we're still gonna give you that template if you stay till the end of
this video but if you want to see more about the actual video that we put
together about how to land Facebook or how to link clients using facebook
Messenger check out this video in the top right hand corner so Facebook
Messenger is actually also adding a camera button to the top right hand
corner of the menu platform and or of the menu for the Facebook messenger
platform and it's going to make it super super easy for you to share video photos
or even do a video call or phone call with one of your friends instead of me
having to tap 500 times to get to the actual point where you can make the call
you literally just swipe and then hit the button you need to call or to send
video or photo or whatever now we all know that Facebook stories are something
that are really really important because everybody just likes using stories
whether it's Instagram Facebook snapchat whatever but Facebook's have not been as
popular and it's because of the fact that they're sometimes just hard to find
so what they're actually doing now is making them easier to find in messenger
as well all you have to do is click the people tab or view one of their stories
so question did you actually like Facebook's story feature
or do you prefer to use Instagram or snapchat stories leave it in the
comments below which one you think is better one final thing that I want to
mention is that it's all about personalization when it comes to
messenger and Facebook really understands that that's why they're
allowing you to do things like custom nicknames now you can do custom chat
fonts and background colors there's all kinds of thing custom emojis it's gonna
be really really cool to see how they play this out and then how other
platforms try to adapt to become that Facebook Messenger style platform
they're gonna look it's gonna be funny really in my opinion to see who's going
to lead that charge and who's gonna make the changes based on whose platform is
performing better right so that's gonna be really cool to pay attention to so
when can we expect these updates basically on October 28th they release
the first update they're doing this in a series of updates so you're allowed to
do things like dark skins on the background now so that way it you know
if your is it's nighttime it's easier to view but that's basically it for now
they haven't done a whole lot yet again they're gonna roll it out in phases so
just pay attention over the rest of this year in the beginning of 2019 and I'm
sure you'll see those changes come out but that's it for this video guys thanks
so much again for joining me and again if you are brand new you need to hit the
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end of this video like I mentioned in the beginning we're gonna give you that
template that I use to land three new clients last year just by sending them a
quick message on Facebook Messenger so if you want access to that template to
that information all you have to do it is it is going to be the very top link
in the description you'll see it just go right below this video in the
description top links sitting right there but that's it for me guys thank
you so much for joining make sure you do everything that I mentioned previously
and I will see you guys on the next one so until then Cereal Entrepreneur out.
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