The feature, according to a report from Buzzfeed, essentially offers users certain actions based on contextual awareness within your conversations with other people — similar to how Google Assistant works within the Allo messaging app. For example, M could offer you a selection of stickers based on your conversations without you having to go searching through all those stickers yourself.
M itself has been in the testing phase for over a year now, and it still has no official release date for a wide rollout. Still, according to Buzzfeed, which spoke with Facebook’s David Marcus, the company does want to release it to the public at some point soon. If M Suggestions proves to be successful, it could help push M out to a wider range of people sooner — Facebook of course is known to have over 1 billion users.
“Hopefully with this side of it, we’ll have a path to opening it up to everyone fairly quickly,” said Marcus in the report.
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M Suggestions will roll out to a small segment of Facebook users over the next few months. Hopefully, however, we’ll see it get a much wider release in the near future.
