Facebook Messenger may be a one-stop shop for making plans with the besties, but even a leading chat app isn't exempt from group indecision and an even bigger social bane: reminding friends to pay you back if you lent them money.
Thankfully, Messenger is adding just the features to combat these hurdles, allowing chatees to vote on choices in-app, as well as use the service's built-in apps to make sure you don't forget about your latest 'IOU,' according to TechCrunch.
The polling feature works like it says on the tin - a user in the Messenger chat group can make up a list of options and ask the rest of the room for a vote. Perfect for those too-open-minded-for-their-own-good groups where precious hours are lost deciding where to go or what to eat that night.
The second, more technically impressive, feature utilizes Facebook's budding chatbot program.
The machine learning system catches phrases like "I owe you X" or "please pay me X" and offers a chance to pay immediately via services like Venmo, PayPal, or Square without leaving the app - especially convenient for the more forgetful of us who still need to chip in on last night's pizza.
The new features roll out today on iOS and Android in the US, and plan to expand globally if they are received well. We don't see that being too much an issue, as we already owe the site a little gratitude for helping us avoid similar faux pas to forgetting to pay someone back, like forgetting a friend's birthday.
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