Michal Ždanský One app to rule them all? That's certainly not the plan for Facebook and its app ecosystem, as evidenced by the latest move the social network plans to make in the coming weeks. For a long time, Facebook messaging was split between two apps – the main app and Facebook Messenger. The company now wants to completely cancel chat in the main application and establish Messenger as the only official client. It will happen in the next few weeks.
A spokesperson for the company confirmed the move: "In order for people to continue to send messages on mobile devices, they will need to install the Messenger app." Facebook's decision is justified as follows: "We found that people respond 20 percent faster in the Messenger app than in Facebook." The company also didn't want to split the time users spend chatting on Facebook between two apps, preferring to leave everything to one dedicated app.
For writing messages, the social network will have two main applications, in addition to Messenger, WhatsApp, which this year bought for $19 billion. However, according to the company, the services do not compete with each other. He perceives WhatsApp more like a substitute for SMS, while Facebook Chat works like instant messaging. The whole move will undoubtedly cause controversy, after all, like a number of other changes that the social network has introduced during its time. Until now, many people did not pay much attention to Messenger and only used the main application for chatting. Now they will have to use different apps to interact with the social network. And that's what Facebook recently launched paper...
Oh yeah..why…I don't want it like that. Well, nothing, unfortunately.
Excellent move, I only use Messenger for chat and it bothers me when messages also jump in the main FB application including badges.
I would rather accept if the bugger could be turned off!!!
I wonder what variant will come for iPad owners who don't have Messenger.
I use messenger on the iPad normally ;)
Therefore, to be safe, it is better not to update the application.
@disqus_Dopq2U6R6Q:disqus – I don't think this will help you. In my opinion, they are able to detect and simply chat from hl. app. prohibit. Let's hope I'm wrong.
Maybe they put some kind of backdoor in there until now, so if he owns some prehistoric version, he'll still be able to do it.
Well, if it works, why not. When FB already bought whats up, they could use it on facebook messager.
So let's get a leg up. I'll give them shit all over FB and just chat.
Facebook is the worst app since its inception, it's time to migrate.
It doesn't bother anyone here that if you turn off sounds and notifications on Messenger, the app buzzes you after every refresh saying that you should turn it on??? That's disgusting! What he said is bullshit. It's just that they don't want people to use Messenger. On the one hand, it buzzes them if they want to have privacy without sounds and previews, and on the other hand, FaceBook does not dig into contacts when chatting. Facebook is starting to rot from the inside.
When Facebook came with Messenger, I didn't understand it. On the other hand, the app is well made. Unlike the main app, it doesn't fall down, it's fast, it supports gestures, and overall it's perfectly integrated into iOS7. So if moving all messages to messenger will help the main app to be stable then why not..