Facebook is about to allow bots, and you may be ok with it

Soon we'll be chatting with virtual robots on Messenger, if Facebook gets its way. At the company's annual F8 developer conference on Tuesday, Facebook unveiled plans to get people to connect with bots via the messaging platform with over 900 million users. Bots to chat with customer service, news organizations, businesses, and apps are all on the table. "I've never met anyone who likes calling a business," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said. "No one wants to have to install a new app for every service or business they want to interact with. We believe there's got to be a better way to do this."