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Facebook Adds Addictive New 'Instant Games' Feature to Messenger | Social Media Today

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Let Social Media Today’s free newsletter keep you informed, straight from your inbox. Remember back in the early days of Facebook when every other person was sending you Farmville notifications and updates? It got annoying, sure, but the frequency of those notifications underlined just how addictive those games were, till the switch to mobile eventually saw Facebook lose out in the casual gaming market. But now, The Social Network may have found an even more addictive way to get back in - from today, Facebook users will be able to load and play a whole new set of games within Messenger and Facebook’s News Feed. Straight away you can see the potential. The new Instant Games don’t require any additional downloads and load within seconds. You can almost foresee your productivity being sucked away as you get locked into a competition to beat your friends’ high scores. To access the new games in Messenger, you click on the new controller icon at the bottom of any message thread. This then c

An article from Facebook Adds Addictive New 'Instant Games' Feature to Messenger Published Nov. 29, 2016 Share Copy link Email LinkedIn X/Twitter Facebook Print License Add us on Google Remember back in the early days of Facebook when every other person was sending you Farmville notifications and updates? It got annoying, sure, but the frequency of those notifications underlined just how addictive those games were, till the switch to mobile eventually saw Facebook lose out in the casual gaming market. But now, The Social Network may have found an even more addictive way to get back in - from t

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