In North America, you can activate Messenger Rooms via Facebook, while those in the rest of the world can do the same through Messenger. Notably, you can invite anyone into a room by simply sharing a web link; in other words, no Facebook account is required to use the new service.

Axar.az reports citing foreign media that as many as 50 people can join a video chat on Messenger Rooms, and there’s no limit to the length of a call. When you start a room, friends will get an alert in their news feed or receive a notification telling them about it.

As you’d expect, Facebook is pitching Rooms as a place where friends can hang out and have a good time. In an obvious effort to set it apart from Zoom, which made its name in the more formal world of work, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg described Rooms as “much more serendipitous and fun” than similar services.