Facebook Is Rolling Out a Version of Instagram Stories for Messenger

Messenger Day will be available globally

Facebook today is taking the next step in its rollout of Snapchat-like features with a version of Instagram Stories for Facebook Messenger.

Messenger Day, as it’s called, has all the same features as Stories (and snaps), along with the stickers and filters familiar to anyone who’s used the disappearing posts on either platform over the past couple of years. The move comes just a few months after Facebook launched a built-in camera feature for Messenger.

“Billions of photos and videos have been sent capturing all those heartfelt, funny and serious messages that make the Messenger community so powerful,” Stan Chudnovsky, Facebook’s head of product for Messenger, wrote in a blog

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