FACEBOOK LAUNCHES WATCH TOGETHER , WHILE APART

 SAN  FRANCISCO: Coronavirus lockdowns have led to a sharp increase in virtual watch parties as away to get together with friends, and facebook  is getting in on the action.

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The world's largest social network on monday launched Watch Together  a free feature it is rolling out globally on its messenger communication platform.

" connecting throught  video has understandably become more important for our messenger community in the past few months," facebook product manager nora micheva said in a blog post. 

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"we created watch together to make spending quality time with friends and loved ones feel as close to an in persone experience as possible." 

There are more then 150 million video calls a day on messenger , and more then 200 million videos sent each day using the service according to micheva.