The scare story seem a bit ironic. While many investment funds have recently decided to depreciate the value of their holdings in Snapchat (but Dropbox), Facebook is testing for its instant messaging can send messages ephemeral. Like the mode of Snapchat.
The test is once will not hurt, not made in the USA but in France. “We make a little test in France of an application that allows people to send messages that disappear one hour after they are sent,” said a spokesman for Facebook, stating that “messages that disappear give people the Choosing another fun option when communicating on Messenger. “
No more than one life time
The function of this new test, simply called” ephemeral messages “is conducted from 20h Thursday night on versions of Messenger application designed for Apple and Android mobile devices. If success is with go, the function could be extended to other countries. Unlike what happens with Snapchat, messages can be viewed several times since they disappear only after an hour of time. And the test devices, this ephemeral function appears to be disabled at will.
With this new feature, Facebook ventures once again on land after attempting Snapchat to buy back several times without success latter. In 2012, Facebook Poke was also launched, an application that copying of Snapchat. But Poke has hardly lived for two years, without success. Last June, in a new attempt, Facebook launched Slingshot, again a fleeting oriented implementation based on mutual sending photos. It has since been removed.
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