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Facebook merges ANOTHER Instagram and Messenger feature

FACEBOOK is rolling out a new feature that further attempts to merge it with Instagram.

Facebook's Accounts Centre is a tool designed to help you manage cross-app features.

Accounts Centre should appear under Settings on your updated Facebook.

It will allow you to control an authentication option, that will let you login to Instagram or recover accounts via your Facebook.

It will also give you control over how your Stories post.

Some people may want to post the same Stories on Instagram as they do on Facebook.

Others may want to use the feature to separate the two.

Facebook Pay is said to becoming to the Accounts Centre too.

This should make it easier for people in the US to make purchases via Facebook and Instagram.

It should also make it easier to sync profile photos.

Although, people who have a personal Facebook and a business focused Instagram will not have to compromise this.

Facebook has already tested merging Instagram and Messenger chats.

Accounts Centre also has a section for controlling some aspects of Messenger.

The social media giant has big plans to eventually merge Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp together.

Here's some of the major times Facebook let us down...

In 2007, Facebook's first targetted advertising product, Beacon, caused outrage because there was initally no opt-in option about the kinds of information users wanted to share
In 2009, a Federal Trade Commission investigation was triggered because Facebook users complained that the new privacy tools were too confusing and pushed users to make more of their personal information public
In 2010, it was revealed that advertisers were using a privacy loophole to retrieve revealing personal information about Facebook users and the company had to change its software
In 2011, the FTC charged Facebook with lying to customers about how their information could be kept private but making it public anyway
2018 saw Facebook's biggest privacy scandal to date with reports that Cambridge Analytica misused user data and Facebook had to admit that it had failed to protect its users

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