We’re not sure what Facebook’s fascination with wanting to get everyone addicted to Messenger is, but they’re about to make it so you don’t have a choice in the matter. Reports are swarming in that Facebook is beginning to notify people (most from Europe) that they will no longer be able to send messages through the base Facebook app.
Instead, users will be forced to download Facebook Messenger for all their private conversations. It’s not a huge change, and it’s nothing that’s going to severely hamper people’s ability to communicate with friends and family, but Facebook has been adamant about wanting to do this for a long time.
Mark Zuckerberg’s explanation was that they felt keeping the messaging experience inside the Facebook app made feel more second rate than it should have been. Here’s an except from a quote of his back in November about the change that he forewarned us about:
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.
Whether that’s true or a mask for their real desires is something that can only be answered by people within the walls of the biggest social networking company out there. Whatever the case may be, though, you might as well download the standalone messenger app now and get it over with, because there’s nothing suggesting Facebook will steer off course at any point in the near future.
[via TechCrunch]
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