Facebook has released its new app Rooms, which allow users to enter chat rooms using pseudonyms, the social media network said Thursday.<\/p>\n
The app does not require a Facebook account and lets users send text messages and share pictures and videos without using their actual names in chat rooms they created using a pseudonym.<\/p>\n
This app does not let users chat anonymously like Secret or Whisper, but rather chat with people who have similar interests.<\/p>\n
“Rooms lets you create places for the things you’re into, and invite others who are into them, too,” Facebook product manager Josh Miller said.<\/p>\n
The chats are invite-only, and users can join a new room by using a circular QR code, which existing Room members pass along by posting it online or printing it as a photo offline. New users then join the room by taking a photo or a screen shot of the code with their smart-phone camera.<\/p>\n
Apps promising anonymity to users have gained in popularity lately.<\/p>\n
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