{"id":42382,"date":"2013-06-03T10:55:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T08:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=42382"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:24:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:24:29","slug":"facebook-to-let-you-message-friends-from-the-status-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebook-to-let-you-message-friends-from-the-status-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook to let you message friends from the status box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/softonic.en\">Facebook<\/a><\/strong> is reportedly testing a new way to send messages, to make it easier, and try to compete with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hangouts.en.softonic.com\/\">Google Hangouts<\/a><\/strong>. The new system would allow you to send private messages from the same box where you write status updates.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42385\" title=\"Facebook messaging from Status box?\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/06\/facebookmessaging.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/06\/facebookmessaging.png 600w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/06\/facebookmessaging-300x79.png 300w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/06\/facebookmessaging-238x62.png 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2013\/06\/02\/facebook-status-composer-messaging\/\">TechCrunch<\/a> reports that this new style of messaging will be tested with a small percentage of users to begin with. The status box will now have multiple functions &#8211; you could post a status update, photo or private message. TechCrunch says this might lead to users accidentally posting private messages as public statuses, but it&#8217;s hard to imagine Facebook risking <a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/are-private-messages-from-2010-and-earlier-visible-on-your-facebook-wall\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>another privacy scanda<\/strong><\/a>l with private messages. We don&#8217;t know anything about the design yet, so it&#8217;s difficult to speculate on how user friendly it will be.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook messaging is constantly evolving, with <a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/facebook-6-0-for-ios-brings-chat-heads-to-the-iphone-ipad\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Chat Heads<\/strong><\/a> being the latest way the social network is trying to keep you talking to each other. Putting messaging right at the center of the interface might encourage even more chat and time spent on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is reportedly testing a new way to send messages, to make it easier, and try to compete with Google Hangouts. The new system would allow you to send private messages from the same box where you write status updates. TechCrunch reports that this new style of messaging will be tested with a small percentage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebook-to-let-you-message-friends-from-the-status-box\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Facebook to let you message friends from the status box&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2353],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-42382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionfacebook"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332841,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42382\/revisions\/332841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42382"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=42382"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=42382"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=42382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}