Facebook’s New Surprise — How To Play Basketball In Messenger App

Celebrating March Madness, Facebook has rolled out an update that lets you play basketball in Messenger app. Just update your instant messaging app and send a basketball emoji to your friend to start the game. Read more to know more about the game.

Facebook is here to make your boring office and school hours a little bit exciting. To celebrate the basketball fever, the company has rolled a little update into its Facebook Messenger app that lets you play basketball in Messenger app.
Just like everybody else, it looks like Mark Zuckerberg is very much excited about March Madness. Earlier, Facebook vowed its users by embedding a secret chess game inside its instant messaging application. So, are you wondering how to play basketball in Messenger app?

How to play basketball in Messenger app?

To get started with the basketball game in your Facebook Messenger app, all you need to do is fire up a conversation with a friend and send him/her a basketball. Note that you need to send a basketball emoji from your keyboard, not a sticker. If you are unable to locate it in your plethora of emojis, here’s one for copying and pasting – ?
Before doing this jugglery, make sure that you’ve updated your Messenger app from App Store.
After sending the ball to your friend, click on it to start the game. As soon as you do this, you’ll see a basketball on your screen and you need to swipe the ball up at the bottom of the screen to take shots. After each try, your starting position will change and the game will get tougher as you score 10 points.



Depending upon the result of your performance in the game of basketball in Messenger app, you’ll be greeted with a frowning face or a flexing bicep. The game tracks people in chat, so that die-hard fans are able to show off their skills in this virtual basketball game. This game of basketball in Messenger app also shows the player with the highest score in the upper-right corner.
Go ahead, give it a try and tell us your highest score in the comments below.

Here’s The Hidden Purpose Of Facebook’s New Reactions Buttons

World’s biggest social networking company Facebook has rolled out the new Reactions buttons that will allow a user to express its emotions in a better way. But, what is the hidden purpose of Facebook’s new addition? Yes, you guessed it right — it’s all about money and data collection.

Facebook has just rolled out its new ‘Reactions’ buttons globally. These six new emojis — ‘love’, ‘haha,’ ‘yay,’ ‘wow,’‘sad,’ and ‘angry’ — were launched to give people more freedom to express their emotions. In its Facebook post, the social media company explained that it has been listening to people to receive feedback and bring the right set of reactions. To see the new buttons, all you have to do is just hover over the like button or hold it down. However, just like any other feature on Facebook, the new Reactions buttons serve a dual purpose for Facebook. The company aims to collect data about how you react to smileys and improve your News Feed.
Every time you open your Facebook account, you witness a series of posts and pictures that are a result of one of the world’s most influential and controversial algorithms. Facebook believes that feeding its algorithm more and more data is the key to longevity.
In the past, Facebook’s Like button has been as a key source of data for the company that are used to customize your digital life. If you like more pictures, you’ll be shown more pictures — the same goes for other types of content.
Giving users six reactions allows the company to gather more focused data. It will now tell the company if the people are enjoying the posts, finding them happy, or becoming sad.
In a blog post, Facebook hinted at a similar possibility: “Over time we hope to learn how the different Reactions should be weighted differently by News Feed to do a better job of showing everyone the stories they most want to see.”
Facebook primarily earns its money from advertising and shares the data with advertisers to improve their targeting. Although Facebook’s privacy policy states that it doesn’t share the personally identifiable information about its users, it does share the bulk information of users.
What do you think about the new Reactions buttons? Tell us your views in the comments below.

How To Find Out Who Has Ignored Your Facebook Friend Request

 It’s very easy to find out who has ignored your friend request on the largest social networking site Facebook. You can view the entire list of the sent friend request and you can also take back or cancel a sent request.

Facebook is one of the most popular websites being used all over the world by about 1.5 billion people. It has grown to become the biggest medium to connect with people and share our lives.Sometimes, we send a friend request to a person on Facebook and forget if the friend request was accepted or it was ignored. Previously, that was not possible to know on the Facebook if you were accepted or not. But now it’s possible to know who ignored you.

Here are some simple steps that you need to know.
Step 1: Go to the Friend Requests section on the home screen and click on it.
Step 2: Scroll down and go to the bottom of the Friend Requests page. Click on the See all.
Step 3: A new page will open. On the left-hand side of the page, you will seeView Sent Requests link. Just click on that link and you will all your Sent friend requests.

On this page, you can also cancel the sent friend requests.