How To Use Facebook’s Messenger Bots Right Now?

How To Use Facebook’s Messenger Bots Right Now?

If you are scratching your brains wondering how bots on Facebook look like and how do they operate, calm down. These are simple bots dedicated to a particular service and you can use them right now.

But, at the moment, they are pretty confusing and unintuitive. Many times the bots don’t know what to do and you end up struggling getting any work done.

To make things easier for you, I tried Facebook Messenger Bots myself. I started with Facebook’s very own F8 bot. You can access it via m.me/f8bot. As you visit this URL on your phone, you’ll be asked to choose Messenger or Facebook app to proceed.

I chose Messenger and here are the screenshots of my chat with F8 Messenger Bot.

                              

Next, I decided to try out another Facebook Messenger Bot that was showed off during the F8 keynote. Yes, I’m talking about Poncho, the weather-bot that pretends to be a cat. Chatting to Poncho was better than my F8 bot experience. You can access Poncho via http://m.me/hiponcho.

You can find Poncho and other bots like CNN, WSJ etc. at botlist.co and use them right away.

Here’s how my chat with Poncho turned out: