Meta is adding a handful of features to the Messenger app that might be acquainted to anybody who’s used Slack, most notably with a brand new @everybody perform. Starting right now, typing @everybody in a chat in Messenger will alert the complete group to your message — so be certain it is a good one.

Messenger can be including a /silent perform, which ensures your message will arrive within the chat with out alerting anybody, like a ghost within the night time. Just kind /silent earlier than your message and also you’re in sneak mode. Both @everybody and /silent instructions are reside on Android and iOS right now.

Meta has extra Messenger plans within the works. Over the approaching weeks, Android and iOS Messenger customers within the US will have the ability to use a /pay shortcut to ship and obtain cash in-chat. On high of that, iOS customers will get /gif, which drops searchable gifs straight into the chat. Messenger on Apple units can even get /shrug and /tableflip instructions, which populate the ¯_(ツ)_/¯ and (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ emoticons, respectively.