Facebook's Non-Facebook Messaging App

Rooms is a new messaging app created by Facebook Labs -- sans the Facebook branding -- reminiscent of early message boards and chat rooms.

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Earlier this month, multiple sources reported that Facebook was working on an anonymous app. The app — Rooms — has since been released, but it doesn’t seem like any other Facebook product because of its nature and the lack of Facebook branding.

“A room is a feed of photos, videos, and text — not too different from the one you have on Instagram or Facebook — with a topic determined by whoever created the room,” the official blog post reads.

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