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<ul><li>Facebook Messenger will now come with a new feature called App Lock, helping users prevent others from accessing their messages.</li><li>The feature is optional and can be enabled by users by going into the Facebook Messenger settings.</li><li>Facebook also announced that it is working on new features to improve user experience in the Messenger app.</li></ul>Facebook has introduced new privacy features like App Lock in Messenger that will help users prevent others from accessing their private messages.<br /><br />App Lock adds another layer of security to private messages. The optional feature gives users "confidence to know that if a friend or family member needs to borrow your phone, they won't be able to access your chats".<br /><br />"Privacy is at the heart of Messenger - where you can be yourself with the people who matter most to you, whether that's through a message, video chat, call or a Messenger Room," said Jay Sullivan, Director of Product Management, Messenger Privacy and Safety.<br /><br />App Lock, present in the new Privacy settings section, will use device's privacy settings like fingerprint or face authentication to unlock the Messenger app.<br /><br />"Your touch or face ID is not transmitted to or stored by Facebook. The feature is available today on iPhone and iPad and will come to Android in the next few months," Sullivan said in a statement on Wednesday.<br /><br />Facebook said it is also working on new controls so Messenger users can decide who can message or call them directly, who goes to their requests folder, and who can't message or call them at all.<br /><br />This will be similar to the message controls on Instagram.<br /><br />"We're also exploring more ways to protect your privacy and safety when someone you don't know sends you a message," said Facebook.<br /><br />The social network will test a feature similar to what exists on Instagram and WhatsApp that blurs images in the message requests folder.<br /><br />This will give Messenger users the choice to view an image from someone they may not know before replying to the message or blocking or reporting the account.<br /><br />There are over 1.3 billion Messenger users globally and Messenger is expected to grow to 2.4 billion users by 2021.<br /><br /><b>SEE ALSO:</b><br /><br /> <b><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/international/news/facebook-and-instagram-are-creating-teams-to-study-bias-on-their-platforms-as-they-face-increased-pressure-to-address-racial-disparities/articleshow/77098317.cms">Facebook and Instagram are creating teams to study bias on their platforms as they face increased pressure to address racial disparities</a></b><br /><br /> <b><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/take-a-closer-look-at-instagram-reels-facebookaposs-tiktok-rival-coming-to-the-us-next-month/slidelist/77051635.cms">Take a closer look at Instagram Reels, Facebook's TikTok rival coming to the US next month</a></b><br /><br /> <b><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/new-facebook-messenger-tool-helps-you-detect-scams-and-other-harmful-interactions/articleshow/75965275.cms">New Facebook Messenger tool helps you detect scams and other harmful interactions</a></b>

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<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Facebook</span></p><p class="caption">Facebook's Marketplace will now let you find and book home-improvement professionals.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul><li><strong><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/category/facebook">Facebook</a> is launching a new home-services feature for Marketplace.</strong></li><li><strong>It looks a lot like other existing services that offer vetted professionals for hire, like <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/category/angies-list">Angie's List</a> and <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-to-start-hiring-cleaners-2018-3">Amazon Home Services</a>.</strong></li><li><strong>Users can enlist professionals to do things like plumbing, cleaning, or performing home renovations.</strong></li><li><strong><a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/fb-stock">Facebook</a> has partnered with Handy, HomeAdvisor, and Porch for the new service.</strong></li></ul><p>Facebook wants to be a bigger part of your home.</p><p>The social network's Marketplace section is moving further into commerce with the addition of home services. Starting Wednesday, users can enlist the expertise of local professionals to do things like plumbing, cleaning, or performing home renovations. Communication happens directly on the site, via Facebook Messenger.</p><p>Facebook says it got the idea from its own users, and it's working with partners like Handy, HomeAdvisor, and Porch to verify the providers on the site.</p><p><span>"More people ask for recommendations related to home services on Facebook in the US than any other topic," Deb Liu, head of Facebook Marketplace, <a href="https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/05/marketplace-services/">said in a blog post</a> announcing the new service.</span></p><p><span>Here's how it works:</span></p><ol><li><span>Users select the service they want done using the Marketplace menu.</span></li><li><span>Facebook asks a few questions to identify what a user needs done. </span></li><li><span>Enter a zip code, and Facebook will provide a list of professionals able to do the work.</span></li><li><span>Users can then browse the providers and select them based on their profiles and reviews.</span></li></ol><p>The service is a lot like other online portals that allow users to enlist professional help, like Angie's List or Amazon Home Services, which connects customers to local contractors to do work like cleaning and appliance installation. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/category/amazon">Amazon</a> recently decided to <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-to-start-hiring-cleaners-2018-3">hire its own cleaners in the Seattle area</a>, signaling it might have more ambitious plans in the space.</p><p>A number of retailers are launching initiatives to bring home-improvement professionals into customers' homes. Walmart r<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/19/walmart-to-sell-handys-in-home-installation-and-assembly-services-in-over-2000-stores/">ecently announced a partnership with Handy</a> to bring its home-improvement and cleaning services to 2,000 stores, and in September, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/report-ikea-acquires-taskrabbit-2017-9">Ikea acquired TaskRabbit</a> to integrate its assembly expertise into the stores' offerings.</p>     <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-try-chick-fil-a-first-time-taste-test-2018-5">We had millennials try Chick-fil-A for the first time</a></h3>        <div>                    </div>    </div>

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<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>FB</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul class="summary-list"><li><strong>Facebook is getting a major redesign.</strong></li><li><strong>The social network has ditched its iconic red bar and now looks more similar to Messenger and Instagram.</strong></li><li><strong>Stories are now front-and-centre on the platform, and Groups are being emphasised as well.</strong></li><li><strong>The social network is trying to move past its two years of relentless scandals.</strong></li></ul><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/facebook">Facebook</a> is getting one of the biggest facelifts in its 15-year history.</p><p>On Tuesday, the California-based tech giant announced a sweeping redesign of the social network - ditching its iconic blue menu bar and replacing it with a cleaner, white design, and placing greater-than-ever emphasis on groups.</p><p>The changes come as Facebook tries to move past two years of constant scandals, from the social network's role in spreading hate speech that fueled genocide in Myanmar to Cambridge Analytica's misappropriation of tens of millions of users' data. </p><p>The new look was formally unveiled at F8, Facebook's annual developer conference in San Jose, California, and gives the social network an appearance that more closely resembles Messenger, Facebook's sister app for messaging. The clean lines and ample white space of Facebook's new look also echo that of photo-sharing app Instagram.</p><p>The new Facebook design also gives Stories - the buzzy ephemeral-photo-sharing format - prominent placement at the very top of users' feeds.</p><p>There are also significant structural changes that place greater emphasis on user-created groups. Users can post to groups directly from the homepage, groups are given greater prominence on the left-hand sidebar (on desktop), and new tools are being added to specialized types of groups. </p><p>The redesigned mobile app will launch "right away," a Facebook spokesperson said in an emailed announcement, while it'll roll out more slowly on desktop - "in the next few months."</p><p><em><strong>Business Insider is reporting live from Facebook's F8 conference in San Jose, California. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/facebook-f8-2019">Click here for all our latest stories »</a></strong></em></p><h2>Facebook is betting big on groups</h2><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>FB</span></p><p class="caption">A screenshot provided by Facebook showing how a user's homepage may look on mobile after the redesign.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Facebook's design has undergone countless revisions and changes throughout its history, often provoking temporary outrage by perturbed users. Tuesday's redesign is a far more aesthetically significant shift than normal, however, finally ditching the blue bar that, in one form or another, has identified the social network since 2004. </p><p>And it arrives as Facebook tries to convince its users it has evolved and learned from previous scandals - that the company now  takes a "broader view of our responsibility," as CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said endlessly over the last year or so. </p><p>The visual tweaks alone don't solve the underlying problems that have plagued Facebook: the news feed's propensity to spread fake news and malicious hoaxes, a move-fast-break-things culture that has resulted in mishandled user data, concerns about monopoly power, and so on.</p><p>However, the increased focus on Groups reflect a change in emphasis for the social network away from being a source for news and towards supporting communities - which it views groups as a prime driver of. </p><p>On desktop, all users will have a Groups tab added to the top of their Facebook homepage (on the mobile app, where there's less space, these tabs change based on what Facebook features users utilize the most).</p><p>And the tab itself has undergone a redesign, showing the various groups a user is part of and posts from within them.</p><p>Groups themselves are getting some changes to account for increasingly specialised uses. Members of Health Support groups, for example, can ask group admins "to post on their behalf in order to protect their privacy around sensitive topics," in an apparent attempt to stop people disclosing sensitive medical data openly on Facebook. Templates are being create for employers to post job adverts in job groups.</p><h2>Facebook is tweaking other parts of its core app too</h2><p>Facebook is also adding a suite of other new features across the core Facebook app.</p><p>It is introducing a new feature called "Meet New Friends," which acts as a kind of platonic match-making service - letting users message strangers from groups or companies they're part of or who share common interest. </p><p>And Facebook Dating, its Tinder rival, is adding a "Secret Crush" feature that lets users know if they and an existing friend harbor hidden feelings for each other, without exposing them if it's unrequited. The dating tool is launching in 14 new countries - though still not the US.</p><p>Facebook is also rolling out new tools to help users buy and sell things through Marketplace, the app's user-to-user shopping hub. Users will be able to make payments directly on Marketplace, and handle shipping directly through the social network. </p><p>Collectively, this redesign and new feature roll-out marks a significant change from Facebook's 2018 developer conference. Last year, reeling from scandals, much of Facebook's F8 felt like damage control - with significant announcements for the core app largely lacking. </p><p>2019's bonanza of alterations suggests that Facebook believes it has stemmed the bleeding, and is ready to start shaking things up again.</p><p><em><strong>Do you work at Facebook? 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