Facebook Launches anonymous chat app Rooms

Recently Facebook had announced its new app called Rooms where users do not have to use their real name and form group discussions. The app takes homage to the early days of the internet where we used chat rooms and forums.

Rooms allows users to choose the appearance of the Room and determines who gets to join it. It is a remix of Reddit, Instagram and old school chatrooms with the ability to remain anonymous and being able to share photos and videos. Users can also invite other users to discussion groups by sending them the unique QR code below.

What is great about rooms is that the moderator can choose to invite a certain group of people or make it public and they also have the ability to remove people from discussions. The moderator of the group can also add age filters, allow post approval and decide how discoverable the group is.The moderator’s role ultimately determines the privacy of the group however it will be interesting to see how trusted this group is with Facebook’s lack of privacy trust.