Meta has quietly launched Communities on Facebook Messenger, following the rollout of Communities in WhatsApp in 2022<\/a>. With the new feature, you can connect with others directly on Messenger – the new Communities is not tied to a Facebook Group.<\/p>\n We make that distinction clear so as to not confuse this new feature with Community Chats<\/a>, which launched in Messenger in 2022 as a way for people to connect with other members of Facebook Groups.<\/p>\n So this is not that. Communities let you create dedicated spaces for real-time communication in Messenger independently of any Facebook Groups, and all members of a Community can see all chat content.<\/p>\n Each Community features a dedicated Home space where admins can share updates and announcements, and up to 5,000 people can join a Community through shareable invites. Each Community can have multiple group chats on various topics.<\/p>\n While this feature works in a similar fashion to the one of the same name found in WhatsApp, the key difference is that the Messenger Communities are connected to Facebook’s social graph – you can invite people to a Community just based on their Facebook profile, you don’t need to have their phone number like in WhatsApp.<\/p>\n Communities on Messenger is now rolling out to all users globally.<\/p>\n![\"Facebook](\"https:\/\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/24\/06\/facebook-messenger-communities\/inline\/-1200\/gsmarena_001.jpg\")
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