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  2. Messenger (software) - Wikipedia

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    Messenger, also known as Facebook Messenger, is an American proprietary instant messaging app and platform developed by Meta Platforms. Originally developed as Facebook Chat in 2008, the company revamped its messaging service in 2010, released standalone iOS and Android apps in 2011, and released standalone Facebook Portal hardware for ...

  3. Facebook - Wikipedia

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    Facebook uses its own content delivery network or "edge network" under the domain fbcdn.net for serving static data. Until the mid-2010s, Facebook also relied on Akamai for CDN services. Hack programming language. On March 20, 2014, Facebook announced a new open-source programming language called Hack. Before public release, a large portion of ...

  4. Instant messaging - Wikipedia

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    Facebook Messenger by Meta Platforms is the most popular messaging app in North America, Northern Europe, some Central Europe countries, and Oceania. Telegram is the most popular messaging app in several Eastern Europe countries, and the second preferred option after WhatsApp in several countries in Western Europe, Middle East, South Asia ...

  5. MSN Messenger - Wikipedia

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    MSN Messenger. MSN Messenger (also known colloquially simply as MSN [2] [3] ), later rebranded as Windows Live Messenger, was a cross-platform instant-messaging client developed by Microsoft. [4] It connected to the now-discontinued Microsoft Messenger service and, in later versions, was compatible with Yahoo! Messenger and Facebook Messenger.

  6. History of Facebook - Wikipedia

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    Specific announcements include making Facebook Messenger more of a platform, a new real-time comments system, embeddable videos, spherical video, Parse for the Internet of Things, updates to ad exchange LiveRail, and analytics for apps. 2015: March 26: Open sourcing: Facebook releases its React native framework for building native apps as open ...

  7. Kik Messenger - Wikipedia

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    Kik Messenger, commonly called Kik, is a freeware instant messaging mobile app from the Canadian company Kik Interactive, available on iOS and Android operating systems. [6] The application uses a smartphone 's internet connection to transmit and receive messages, photos, videos, sketches, mobile web pages, and other content after users ...

  8. Social media - Wikipedia

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    One studied emotional effect of social media is 'Facebook depression', which is a type of depression that affects adolescents who spend too much of their free time engaging with social media sites. This may lead to problems such as reclusiveness which can negatively damage one's health by creating feelings of loneliness and low self-esteem ...

  9. Facebook onion address - Wikipedia

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    The network address it used at the time – facebookcorewwwi.onion – is a backronym that stands for Facebook's Core WWW Infrastructure. [7] In April 2016, it had been used by over 1 million people monthly, up from 525,000 in 2015. [3] Google does not operate sites through Tor, and Facebook has been applauded for allowing such access, [11 ...