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Messenger, always stronger. In recent months, the chat application of Facebook, which claims over a billion users, has enriched its range of services, with functions of voice calls and live video, bots and integrated online payment, games and other services, such as Uber or voyages-scnf.com in addition to his vocation of base : the e-mail. Always eager to satisfy the needs of its users, the social network board on a new feature to ensure that they will always have something to say.

Excerpt from the film “Monty Python : the Meaning of life” (1983)

This new feature called ” topics of conversation “, for the moment, test on a small number of users, according to the website Tech Crunch, has been found by a developer of Uber, Chris Messina :

Under the name of each person in your contacts list, Messenger proposes, therefore, to indicate where she has visited recently, what piece of music she listened to, or the events in which she must participate, the information apparently was drawn directly in the news feed Facebook of your friends. And since the “snitch” Messenger, you also specify when the person in question was connected for the last time, the application is transformed into a real small control centre, a trend voyeur.

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As with the applications that have become indispensable in daily life, we will classify it according to its sensitivity, somewhere between “practice” and ” disturbing “. On one hand, if these topics of conversation suggested can help to break the ice with a lost knowledge or a new contact which we do not know large-thing, it is easy to see this as yet another robotic eye of Big Brother, which will still result in restricting our petit clos ‘ privacy online. As regards the actual content of the exchanges with your friends, Facebook wants to be on the other hand reassuring, as Messenger now allows you to encrypt conversations.

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