The social network is rolling out some new features for the service. Now you can see if someone has read your text message and it's easier to tell if someone is typing and where they're located.

The "read receipts" also work for group messaging and display the names of the people who've seen the message directly under a sent message.

The updates will show up first in the standalone Messenger apps for iOS and Android, and then appear in Facebook's main mobile apps and its website, reports .

If you're not familiar with Messenger you might wonder why you'd need a messaging app in addition to the official Facebook app. Yet you can use Facebook Messenger to quickly and easily to groups of your Facebook friends.

Another great feature is this: When you use it on your phone Messenger logs your chats inside Facebook so if you move over to the Web interface your conversations are right there.