But now, it looks like Facebook is pushing Android users to download the stand-alone app if they want to keep using Messenger.
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“Facebook’s argument is that the Messenger apps gives users the ‘best experience”.
Notifications included short summaries and allowed users to tap through to view the news articles, but the app has clearly failed to capture the attention of Facebook’s user base and the wider news-reading public.
Although annoying for some, this latest push seems like the next logical step for Facebook as it’s clearly eager for users to only chat with each other via the dedicated Messenger app and nothing else.
How will you be able to use Facebook on a friend’s phone if, say, your battery is dead?
Even though they could tap back and access conversations on Facebook, the message persisted in appearing, thus forcing users to download the messaging application. But many have been using this web browser workaround to access messages as they didn’t want to download the Messenger app.
Those on an Android mobile or tablet and using a web browser who try to read messages held within Facebook’s instant messaging service are being greeted with a notice that their conversations “are moving to Messenger”.
As they continue to point out, “Best Experience” really only refers to the best way for Facebook to monetize your messages.
It’s been roughly two years since Facebook chose to strip the chat functionality from their smartphone app.
Almost two years ago, Facebook removed all messaging features from its apps for the iOS and Android, spinning out all communications capabilities to a new standalone app named Messenger.
Messages are already inaccessible via the official Facebook app. The functionality is about to get cut from the mobile app just as it was cut from the original Facebook app.
Not for the user maybe but the more users there are on Messenger, the merrier will be Facebook’s party. Users who wish to chat would now need to install the Facebook Messenger app.
But if you load www.facebook.com/home.php, you are not.
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But this can be termed as too desperate to let its users down. No more chatting for the unsuspected mobile web users.
