There Were Some Heavy Additions to Facebook’s Messenger Lite This Week

Animated GIFs and conversation customization were incorporated

Facebook is adding some beef to Messenger Lite.

The slimmed-down Android application, designed for emerging markets and areas with poor internet connectivity, debuted in October 2017 in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Ireland.

Product manager Krish Gali revealed in a blog post that Messenger Lite now supports animated GIFs, which can be found via third-party keyboards or users’ own libraries.

Several of the features the social network introduced for the flagship Messenger app in December 2015 have now been extended to its less-than-10-megabyte cousin.

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