Facebook’s Messenger chief on selfies, payments and a desktop app

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by Sindy Cator on January 22, 2015 at 4:29 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Profiles and Interviews

On December 31, Facebook rolled out a little banner prompting people to send a selfie to friends via Messenger to ring in the new year. However, to show gratitude at provision of the service – and the introduction of selfie-oriented features like this – users started using the bug reporting tool to send thanks to the dev team, rather than just to say Happy New Year to their friends, according to Facebook Messenger Vice President David Marcus. “Lots of people did that… It’s actually kind of tricky, [so] it’s funny. You have to go into the options to send feedback,” Marcus…