Blackberry's new Find a Friend option on its messenger service allows users to locate friends without entering a pin.
The choice shows up once users upload the BBM App, and immediately to people who currently have it according to a post in the Android Community.
New users will receive a request to be added by current users. The Find a Friend option is located in the app's invites menu, and exists on BBM's latest version. The program will soon show on devices within 24 hours if users have trouble viewing it.
Blackberry hit a record 10 million downloads 24 hours after its release on Android and iPhone smartphones October 21.
"In just 24 hours BBM has been downloaded over 10 million times by Android and iPhone users, one of the best single-day openings for a mobile app to date," the company said in a statement News24 reported.
"We intend to be the leading private social network for everyone who needs the immediate communication and collaboration of instant messaging combined with the privacy, control and reliability delivered through BBM," Andrew Bocking, executive vice president of BBM at BlackBerry told News24.
Last year, Blackberry lost $646 million when its revenue significantly decreased 40 percent to $11 billion The Wall Street Journal reported. This year, the company lost four million subscribers and suffered another decrease of $84 million in the fiscal quarter that ended June 1.
Blackberry made a smaller amount of cuts over the summer from its sales, and research, and development departments. This comes just a year after the company let go 5,000 people.
As of March, Blackberry had 12,700 employees, which was the last time it revealed a total number. Two years ago, over 17,000 employees worked at the company based in Waterloo, Ontorio Canada. Blackberry also had control of 14 percent of the smartphone business. This has since dropped to less than three percent.
