Facebook has now hijacked a feature from Slack: the ‘Command Message’ feature has arrived in Messenger!

Facebook’s messaging service, the most widely used social media platform in the world Messenger updated. This update brought some innovations to users. The features copied from the messaging software called Slack, which are mostly used by businesses, seem to bring some convenience to users. Because with this update some shortcuts are offered to users.

According to the explanation in the blog post prepared for Messenger, users can now make their messages more visible or softer by using some expressions. For example a user@everyoneIf he sends a message with the phrase “a special notification is sent to all users in that chat.”/quietIn the messages that start with “, no notification is sent to the users. In other words, this message is muted.

This is what shortcuts look like in Messenger

Facebook’s shortcut feature will not consist of @everyone and /silent. In the near future, iOS and Android users in the US will be able to use the “/pay” command. This comic is easy with Facebook Pay transfer made will offer. On the other hand, “/gif”, “/shrug” and “/tableflip” will be available soon for iOS users. As the name of the /gif shortcut suggests, gif files It will make things easier for you. When you type /tableflip and send a message, you are sending an iconic expression to the other party. This expression looks like this: (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻AĞI┻ . Even if you give the /shrug command, you get the following expression: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

@everyone and /silent shortcuts for facebook messenger distribution started† However, there is no specific calendar for the keyboard shortcuts /pay, /gif, /tableflip, and /shrug. So it may take a while before you start using all the functions. By the way, /pay command Not to be used in Turkey let me specify.