Ondrej Holzman Over the next few days, Facebook users will be able to send messages for the last time through the main and official mobile apps, whether they use iOS or Android. Facebook has decided to permanently and exclusively move chatting to the Messenger app. The user will be informed about the change in the near future.
First Facebook with this idea flirted back in April, when it disabled chat in the main app for some European users. Now Facebook engineers have collected the data and found that it will be beneficial if all users switch to Messenger for messaging. Facebook argues that, on the one hand, chatting through a dedicated application is 20 percent faster, and on the other hand, the main application and Messenger will be able to get better and better thanks to this.
Many users have been using both apps for a long time, but at the same time, there are plenty of users who have refused to install the second app until now. There could be several reasons - whether it was the uselessness of two applications for a single purpose, taking up space between the icons on the main screen, or the popularity of the so-called chat heads, which Facebook previously presented so spectacularly, only to cancel them again.
But the truth is that messaging through Messenger really does guarantee a better experience. The user will just have to get used to having to switch between the two apps, but thanks to their linking, it's a matter of a single tap. Sending photos, videos, stickers and other content is much easier in Messenger, and Facebook has made significant improvements to its chat app in recent months.
Significant changes with the end of the chat in the main mobile application have so far been spared iPad users, those who work through the mobile web or access Facebook classically through a computer web browser.
Well, if it smells, it has nothing to do with how he plans to implement some online payments there, which I read somewhere else...
also, I don't use that fb... Calls and messages (+ iMessage or Viber) make sure of it
the trend of prelinked applications is starting, an example is foursquare+swarm. in practice, users don't like it very much, because switching between applications takes an awfully long time on most phones (various lowend htc models, older iPhones 3GS/4 and the like)
to hell with the whole messenger, I really don't want to stuff that crap into my htc
I don't drink, but will you chat through the browser or not at all :-)
I'm counting on the team, I'll try to get chatting ;)
I don't understand people who have FB. They need to present themselves and take pictures of what they have for lunch, etc. It is a form of exhibition.
I give Facebook a year……
:D a year ago, that's an ox..
So you won't be surprised……
So that "you" are not surprised...
Don't be surprised...
When they write what they had for lunch, it's bullshit - but it's good when they go on vacation, they must see a nice waterfall there, take a picture and post it on FB. Friends and family can share their good times... The tool is not worth it, how its user uses it...
Otherwise, I agree with the others - it's stupid to have two applications for one thing. And the argument that my message will not be sent in 100 milliseconds, but in 80 milliseconds, probably doesn't even deserve comment...
useless ballast hangs
So if I have a profile and not a messenger, no one will write to me, right? :YES, will I still needlessly have 2 applications on my phone?
A sugar snap
Only very stupid people with low IQ use FB.
That's why they are so wide!!
Are you catching FB users?
And - sorry - I know, you don't understand!!!
which moron is deleting posts here??