WATCH: Facebook Messenger adds new feature for Valentine's Day

Published Feb 14, 2018

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DURBAN - Facebook Messenger has added a new feature for couples who indicate that they are in a relationship on the social media platform. 

Couples who become "Facebook Official" will get a notification from Messenger that will open up into your chat with your loved one. 

This chat will have the following features:

1. Raining hearts

: a shower of hearts will fall across your screen.

2. Special emoji

: On the chat will be a custom emoji in the lower right corner. The custom emoji is the famous heart-eyes emoji, so you can express your love fast and  easy. 

3. Get personal

: You can personalise and set up your own custom text colour, emoji, and nickname if your want to switch things up even further. 

4. Chatting with bae

: Your boyfriend/girlfriend will be the first person to display on the Active tab, so you can easily see when they are available to chat. 

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Messenger seems to be a popular platform to express love and affection. Facebook has found that emojis is the new language of love with people sharing more than 2 billion emojis every day using Messenger. Three of the top five most popular emojis are, the kiss emoji, the heart-eyes emoji, and the heart emoji

Also the Messenger Camera will have fun filters and effects if you are planning on sending a love note to someone on Valentine's Day. Some of these filters or effects include falling candy hearts and or a Queen f Hearts filter. 

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