Cover image via Convo AgencyOn 12 and 13 April, Facebook held its annual Developers Conference. This is the time where the social media giant unveiled some of its new features and services that all of its users are going to see in the coming months.
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Facebook's annual global developer conference was held at Fort Mason in San Francisco on 12 and 13 April.
If you missed out on the event, no worries! Check out some of the highlights below:
1. Mark Zuckerberg attacks Donald Trump in his opening speech
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He said, "As I look around and I travel around the world, I'm starting to see people and nations turning inward, against this idea of a connected world and a global community. **I hear fearful voices calling for building walls and distancing people they label as others.** For blocking free expression, for slowing immigration, reducing trade, and in some cases around the world even cutting access to the Internet."
2. Chat-bots wants to talk to you when you're lonely
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Facebook is building artificial intelligence-powered "chat-bots" into its Messenger application to allow businesses to have software that can engage in lifelike text exchanges with users. **These bots are software infused with the ability to "learn" from conversations, and could get better at figuring out what people are telling them and how best to respond.**
3. The Messenger app was the fastest growing platform in 2015
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Between Messenger and WhatsApp, people are sending 60 billion messages a day, Zuckerberg said. **900 million people use Facebook Messenger**, but that's not enough. The company wants that number to be higher, and it hopes instant connection with services can be the way to do it.
4. VR (Virtual Reality) is going to be the next big thing
5. Video profile pictures will be introduced to more apps like Instagram and Vine
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Apps like Vine, Instagram's Boomerang, and Facebook's MSQRD will soon have buttons that let them send videos you capture directly over to Facebook, where they'll be put in place as your new profile image. Other apps will be able to support this too.
6. Any device is able to stream Facebook Live, including a drone
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7. You can now share quotes directly to Facebook
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