Facebook users have been growing
rapidly and billions of users are connected to Facebook. Most of the users use Facebook
on mobile for chatting with their friends and now Facebook starting to notify
users that they no longer have the option for iOS and Android to send and
receive messages in Facebook. In order to send and receive messages via Facebook
in mobile you need to download Facebook Messenger.
According to the dedicated
texting app Facebook rolled out in 2011 Facebook has been informing mobile
users that they'll no longer be able to text via its core app and they need to download
Messenger to text messages.
Facebook’s main apps have always
included a full-featured messaging tab. Then a few months ago, users who also
had Facebook’s standalone Messenger app installed had the chat tab of their
main apps replaced with a hotlink button that would open Messenger. But this was
optional. If you wanted to message inside Facebook for iOS or Android, you just
didn’t download Messenger. That’s not going to be an option anymore.
According to the Facebook spokeswoman
from the last week the company started informing some users and the update will
roll out first to Android and iOS users in a handful of European countries.
"Messenger is a much faster
and better experience and we've found that people get replies 20% faster on
Messenger than on Facebook," the spokeswoman said in an e-mail.
"Taking messages out of the Facebook app also lets us focus on making
Messenger even better for everyone rather than working on two separate Facebook
messaging experiences."
After the launch of the Messenger
3.0 by Facebook in November, in the core Facebook app they have discontinued
messaging for the users you have already using Messengers.
Mark Zuckerberg the CEO of Facebook
had an explanation for today’s change that Facebook’s PR team just referred.
“the other thing that we’re doing with
Messenger is making it so once you have the standalone Messenger app, we are
actually taking messaging out of the main Facebook app. And the reason why
we’re doing that is we found that having it as a second-class thing inside the
Facebook app makes it so there’s more friction to replying to messages, so we
would rather have people be using a more focused experience for that.”
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