Facebook's Slingshot differs in a few key ways from the established Snapchat ephemeral messaging app. Photo Illustration/IBTimes/Luke Villapaz Facebook Inc.’s ...

Facebook has a one eye focused on the advent of popular messaging service Snapchat, and to bring the app to level playing ground, the company has released its own Slingshot chat feature. While ...

As a function within Facebook, "Poke" seemed to exist only to confuse and annoy people. Why would anyone want to send someone a message with no content? It's still a valid question, only it takes on a ...

Facebook introduced yet another app today — Slingshot, a self-destructing photo-sharing platform. Wait a minute. Isn't that Snapchat? Indeed, Facebook's new app is also an express lane for sharing ...

At first, Facebook’s new ephemeral messaging app, Slingshot, feels like yet another Snapchat clone. The free app, available now for iPhone and Android, lets you take a quick photo or video, mark it up ...