Facebook Messenger just stole Snapchat’s best feature

Facebook’s been beefing up its Messenger app for a while now, particularly as it’s an important part of its strategy for business users, and now you can get a piece of the action with its new username features: Codes, Usernames and Links. You’ll have already been assigned a personal URL based on your username, unless you already chose to create a customized one for your normal Facebook profile. It’ll be formatted as ‘facebook.com/yourusername,’ making you super-easily searchable to people outside of your friendship group. It works just like a regular URL, so you can share it anywhere online to lead people straight to a Messenger…
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