In recent weeks, we have seen a huge number of movements on various services and platforms that allow us to make a video call, some good and some bad. Well, we're getting a new Microsoft service called Reunise now, which allows us to make video calls without having to subscribe to a service (registration required in Zoom mode)
What's worse, we've encountered different security and medical issues for two Zoom platform employees, a problem that has forced many governments and companies (Google, Apple, Tesla …) to stop using Zoom's video calling platform. Facebook, like Microsoft, has sought to take advantage of Zoom's problems to launch Messenger Rooms.
The concept of Messenger Rooms, as its name suggests, is based on building rooms, rooms for up to 5o people that anyone can join. These rooms can be made from the application app and the web Facebook (at the link to be published in the timeline of the user you are creating), Messenger (since a few days ago, a Windows and MacOS computer application exists) and you can access from Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp and Portal devices.
Access to one of these rooms is a must click on the link produced when building a room (same functionality as Meet Now from Skype and Zoom). To access, we should only write our name, it is not necessary to create an account or users of Facebook or Messenger at any time (same functionality as Meet Now but not in Zoom where we must register or if).
As for functionality, Messenger Rooms, it allows us to change the background of the room or where we're at (as in Meet Now and Zoom), in addition to allowing us to add face filters (like Zoom but not Meet Now). Room maker may create an access password in addition to removing unauthorized persons.
Privacy and Facebook: a mistake
When we talk about Facebook, we have to talk about privacy. According to company Mark Zuckerberg, from unregistered users who enter the rooms, will record the details of the name, the platform used and the browser in particular
Obviously, users who are subscribed to the platform will keep it For each data you want and that they are established in terms of the use of both systems / services (Facebook and Messenger).
Another thing to consider when using this new section of video calls is through encryption. While Meet Now For Encrypting all endless video calls (Just like messages that are sent via WhatsApp), Messenger Rooms uses the same encryption as the messaging platform, that is, only the secret chats sent.
To this day, The best solution is to make video calls that protect our privacy We find on Meet Now on Skype, a platform that doesn't offer any problems Zoom has encountered in recent weeks and has also recorded all the endless video calls. FaceTime would be a great alternative if its functionality wasn't limited to iOS and macOS devices.
Facebook has started doing this new work in other countries and will expand all over the world in the coming weeks, so to speak We do not know when it will be available in Spain and Latin America.
Requests for video calls
While Facebook uses this new functionality in all countries, we can use programs to make the video calls we show you in this article. As I mentioned earlier, a great option for making video calls, is the one that Skype provides us with now, a platform that respects our privacy, with no desire to collect our data and encrypt video calls from end to end.
The other solution is Apple & # 39; sToTime, as long as everyone else has to participate, have a Mac or iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. But if our needs do not include crowdfunding, any other app can qualify you, from WhatsApp (currently limiting video calls to 4 but will increase to 8 in a few days), Google Duo, and 12 people in charge.
