After Facebook tried to buy Snapchat in 2013 without any success, the company owned by Mark Zuckerberg has done everything possible for applications such as Instagram, Facebook, Mesenger or WhatsApp to add new features that are undoubtedly a copy Of what Snapchat popularized a few years ago as filters and masks.
And that is exactly what Facebook Messenger has announced today, but now compatible with video calls within the application, so from this moment we can add filters, animated reactions and masks live, that is, basically what we could already Do with the Facebook camera but added to individual or group video calls.
In order to use the new functions, simply start a video call and press the star icon at the bottom of the screen. In this way, we will have the catalog of options available to encourage our conversation.
Although this type of functions are not liked by all users, they do work to brighten the conversations between friends, although we are not talking about a big news because Instagram and Facebook could already use this type of filters in publications.
But one of the interesting things that may be more attractive to Facebook Messenger users is the ability to save images directly from the application, since we can save the screenshot only of the video call and save it on our phone for later sharing in Any type of social network or keep it as a souvenir on our phone.
Undoubtedly this is an ideal option if we get used to playing with these types of functions and find a fun time to capture in a group video call.
As we mentioned earlier, this new feature of Facebook is available to all users in the world and can be used already in the official Facebook Messenger application for Android and iOS, so the web version, mobile, third-party applications and Messenger Lite are excluded from this feature.
