Facebook is rolling out a major redesign of its social network's mobile app and introducing a desktop app for its Messenger service as it tries to recover from a series of privacy breakdowns that have cast a cloud over its future. The overhauled mobile app unveiled Tuesday by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is supposed to make it easier for the social network's more than 2.2 billion users to find other people with common interests by connecting through its groups features.
The new option to communicate through a Messenger app designed for personal computers is part of Zuckerberg's plan to emphasize more private ways for Facebook users to communicate instead of encouraging them to share everything on their personal pages.
Messenger will eventually use encryption technology that will make content indecipherable to anyone but the sender and recipients. That's similar to what Facebook's WhatsApp service already does.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is declaring at the social networking company's biggest conference of the year that the "future is private."
Zuckerberg is using the Tuesday keynote address to sum up his plan to turn Facebook and its related services into the equivalent of digital living room where people can share things in more private ways than they currently can on Facebook's main social network, now populated by more than 2.2 billion users.
Zuckerberg launched this new emphasis earlier this year as Facebook tries to recover from a series of huge privacy lapses that have rocked the company over the past 15 months. It continues to run a highly profitable business built on collecting personal information from its users so it can sell ads targeted to their interests.
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