F acebook launched Thursday an anonymous chat room app called Rooms, the latest creation to emerge from the company’s initiative to design more apps connecting people in different ways. The free ...

Facebook's new Rooms app harkens back to the way the Internet used to be. Facebook The company's new Rooms app, unveiled Thursday, will allow people to chat in groups.

Discord Price: Free / $4.99-$9.99 per month Discord is an excellent place to meet and chat with strangers. It’s a chat room style app with tons of servers. It originally evolved as a gamer platform.

With Messenger Rooms, Facebook users can create a video chat room via Facebook or the Messenger app and invite up to 50 people to join a video call -- even if they don't have a Facebook account.

There is also an option for making the room invite-only, a kind of private anonymous group chat. For convenience, the app generates QR code invitations for posting on social media.

It’s become the breakout hit of quarantine by letting people on a whim join group video chat rooms with friends the second they open the app. It saw 50 million downloads in a month, up 70X over ...

The standalone app doesn’t require a Facebook account or the use of any identifiable information to participate, and making use of chat rooms was a direct nod to the early days of the Internet ...

Rooms is a standalone app that is not integrated with Facebook and does not require a Facebook login. No personally identifiable information is required within chat rooms and users are identified ...

The Gmail app, in full Google Chat mode, now has four tabs at the bottom: the Gmail tab (called "Mail"), two Google Chat tabs ("Chat" and "Room"), and finally a Google Meet tab.

This chat app only works when your phone battery is low It's not what you'd expect from something called 'Die With Me.' Rob LeFebvre Contributing Writer Updated Fri, January 19, 2018 at 12:39 PM PST ...