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Leave a comment Comments. Its popularity therefore rocketed and at its last count it had million BBM users worldwide. It has now been made popular by features such as timed messages, voice chat, video chat, display pictures and status updates.
The app is particularly popular in border regions like the northwest because it offered free phone calls and messaging to users in different countries. The app was innovative in that sense. BBM is easy to use. After downloading BBM you must create an account. Once a contact is added you can start a chat with them. Instead they must have previous contact with the user to add them as a contact. A pin might look like ED2AA.
Broadcast messages to all contacts: BBM allows users to send a message to all contacts. This feature is useful for sending out alerts but it is most commonly used for sending out contact information for a new user looking for contacts.
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Absent from the list are Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. Both are capable messaging apps that you surely could use. However, a recent report revealed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to make it possible for users of WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Instagram to send messages to each other , despite the messaging services currently being separate entities.
On the surface, it sounds like a good idea. But when you start looking at what the move could mean in terms of user privacy , it can leave you with an unsettling feeling. Especially when you consider that WhatsApp messages are currently encrypted, while Messenger and Instagram messages are not.
Exactly how Facebook will blend the services and what level of protection it will provide are unknown. BBMe includes all of the familiar BBM features -- voice and video calls, read receipts and file sharing, to name a few -- that users have known and loved for all these years, plus end-to-end encryption.
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