Becoming friends with someone on Facebook Messenger has now become much easier. What happens is that not only can you use Messenger even without registering with Facebook, but you can also add people with whom we are not friends to Facebook contacts directly from Messenger.
This can be done because now every person and also every Facebook page, on Facebook Messenger, gets a username with which this can be traced.
This username is indicated similarly to that of Twitter, with the @ (for example @pomhey is my contact on Facebook Messenger while @navigaweb leads to write messages on the Navigaweb page).
Facebook usernames should help people identify the person they are chatting with, so they don't exchange messages with a contact who has the same name as a friend of ours, but who is not him.
You can then search for a contact with his username, which is unique for each one, from the Settings tab of the Facebook app (at the time of writing the username there is, but the search does not work).
The username also serves to connect with a person on Messenger through a unique link on the internet .
In fact, each registered user also obtains a fixed link which, if opened by others, opens the conversation on Messenger.
The link is of the type m.me/username .
For example, the fixed link is m.me/navigaweb is that of the Navigaweb page on Facebook.
If this link is clicked from the smartphone it opens a conversation with Navigaweb on the Messenger app while if it is clicked on PC it opens the messenger website pointing to the chat with Navigaweb.
This link is a function already currently active and usable.
Finally, the latest news from Facebook Messenger which has already been partially activated only on Facebook pages (perhaps it will also be activated for users) is that of contact codes .
In practice, each Facebook page can generate a circular code which can then be scanned by Facebook Messenger to communicate with that page.
Who manages a Facebook page can now open the section of Private messages received from the page and click on the Messenger Code button at the top of the left column next to the word Absent and "select all".
The code can then be scanned from the Messenger app (to the friends section) to write messages to that page.
This is particularly useful when you intend to communicate with companies to receive assistance or ask for information.
The top one, for example, is the code generated by the Navigaweb page.
