Facebook is Turning Off Messaging in Its Main App to Force Users Onto Facebook Messenger
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Posted April 9, 2014 at 11:17pm by iClarified
Facebook is turning off messaging in its main app to force users onto the FaceBook Messenger app, notes TechCrunch.
Notifications about the change are going out to some users in Europe starting today, and they’ll have about two weeks and see multiple alerts before the requirement to download Messenger kicks in. Eventually, all Facebook users will get migrated to this new protocol. And you can bet some users are going to be angry.
When asked for comment, Facebook referred to Zuckerberg's comment on the matter back in November:
“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.”
How do you feel about the change? Do you use the main Facebook app for messaging?
You can download Facebook Messenger from the App Store for free.
WHO HERE IS GETTING SOO ANNOYED BY SHITTY FACEBOOK REMINDING US TO INSTALL THEIR SHITE MESSENGER APP AND FACEBOOK FORCING US TO USE IT WHEN THEY CANT FORCE US TO.
What is the difference between tapping on the chat head or tapping on 'Messenger' button to switch to the app ? I mean, besides that it opens a different app, it's the same. Also, battery life is improved, because background (news feed or other feed) refreshes while a chathead is open.
Since you have to friend people to write a post to ask them something, unless they aren't friends, my only way was to message them to do it but now I have to ask them by using another app? Is facecrook losing their mind?
Their main focus is to keep people in touch, people like mark zuckenberg have their own strategy and unique way of making things. So all we have to do is go with the flow.
Yeah go with the flow everybody wants two apps running at one time doing the same thing, it's convenient to have one more app in the background running your battery a little harder in your RAM
I use the app but only because it forces me to. However I just think it is stupid having a seperate app for messaging when people normally build apps that do things in one.
First they buy oculus, then they eliminate messaging? I don't want separate apps, I want features without switching to a different app. It's like separating the store from angry birds friends and you'll find it in another app to do it. I might switch to twitter since it's now as simple as Facebook.