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    Facebook Revamps Messages to Look More Like Email

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    Facebook began rolling out a new, cleaner version of Messages on Wednesday.

    Your inbox is now (or will soon be) sorted into two panes, mimicking a format favored by email clients such as Microsoft Outlook. Search and message previews are listed on the left; on the right, full message threads and a reply field are displayed.

    [More from Mashable: Facebook App Wants to Share Your Last Words With the World After You Die]

    As you can see in the screenshot below, it's a big improvement on the earlier version of Messages. Now, users don't have to navigate back to the main Messages page to see all of their incoming notes.

    Beyond the big layout change, you can now add emoticons and attach multiple photos to Messages, Facebook said in a blog post. The social network has also enabled keyboard commands, which you can see by typing "Alt + Q" on a PC or "Control + Q" on a Mac on the Messages page.

    What do you think of the redesign?

    This story originally published on Mashable here.

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