Facebook Messenger rolls out mention alerts and message Reaction emoji

 Group chat will get a bit less chaotic with the global rollout of two Facebook Messenger features it was previously testing in Vietnam. Users can now @mention friends in a group chat to send them a special notification to reply to your message so they don’t miss it in a noisy thread. You just type @, then the person’s name or in-thread nickname, and the name will be highlighted… Read More

from https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/23/facebook-messenger-reactions/?ncid=rss