From Gloom to Glam: The Evolution of Facebook Messenger Chatbots

I bet you’d agree that bots have taken over multiple spaces in the past two years and the number of companies who choose to initiate bots have continued to increase simultaneously. There has certainly been no sign of the chatbot mania dwindling ever since it came into force, in fact it has only grown and will continue to grow as the years pass by.

In a recent interview with Mr Anand Chandrasekaran, the head of Messenger Partnerships at Facebook there’s a lot that you and I can learn about messenger bots, about its evolution and future respectively. If you are a bit skeptical about the use of bots, this blog will surely change your perspective.

Chandrasekaran’s work is mainly concentrated on Facebook Messenger, which has rapidly developed as one the most favored platform for businesses and developers likewise. Bringing some factual information here, over 100,000 developers have created around 100,000 operational bots using messenger as a platform and this number is on a constant rise.

For those struggling to be a part of the bot squad, here’s your tiny little guide on creating a Facebook messenger bot

There are a lot of tools online that guide and help you create facebook bot, it’s not as complex as we all presume it to be, moreover it doesn't require any coding.

Follow these steps:

Step No.1: Give it a exclusive name

Step No.2: Give consumers suggestions on how to get started

Step No.3: Try to imitate a natural conversational motion

Step No.4: Make your bot sound clever

Step No.5: Never unveil all features in one go

And lastly,

Step No.6: Modify and maintain your chatbot

Moving on to the current scenario of chatbots, so tell me what do we see today in terms of chatbots? Any guesses? Let’s take a look?

If you take a trip down memory lane and look at the technicalities and various user interfaces, you will actually see that bots have become a lot more powerful today as compared to what they were capable of doing a generation ago. They are continually, automatizing, resolving and working for you and simultaneously are using various interfaces to ask you instructive queries, respond to your constant requests etc.

Messenger bots are now an integral part of every business, they were created to simplify processes and since then, the growth has been marvelous and hopefully will continue to spread its charm in the years to come.