Facebook Messenger to Show Information About First-Time Senders

Facebook is rolling out another major feature to its standalone Messenger that will offer publicly available contextual information of first-time senders on the app. The feature can be immensely useful for Messenger app - which has over 600 million users - and its users who sometimes receive messages from strangers.

Mashable reports that the new feature has started rolling out to iOS and Android apps in France, India, UK, and the US. Users in these countries can expect to receive the feature in the next few weeks. The report adds that the first-time sender can be a non-Facebook friend or can be in the user's list.