Oh, the humanity! Facebook's new plan for app domination is removing Messenger from its main app. Now users will have download the standalone Facebook Messenger app to view any of their messages on their mobile devices.
This may not sound like a big deal. It actually might not even be a big deal, but to Facebook users who hate change, this is a tragedy. Technically, Facebook isn't taking Messenger away from the main app completely. The icon will still be there, but now it will take you out of the main app and send you to the separate Messenger app. If you haven't downloaded it yet, Facebook will make you.
No download, no messages.
It's sort of cruel, isn't it? Well, Facebook doesn't think so. The company insists that it's doing this for your own good. The standalone Messenger app is way better than the messaging app built into the main app. It looks nicer, feels more like texting, and just makes sense. Facebook also insists that setting Messenger free will help speed the app's overall progress. Now Facebook might be able to add voice calls and other cool stuff.
Several Facebook app users in Europe spotted the change and now Facebook has confirmed that this is really happening. In a few weeks, the update will start to roll out and Messenger will migrate to its own greener pasture. Everyone who uses the messaging function on Facebook will just have to follow.
Given Facebook's recent purchase of WhatsApp and its latest app venture Paper, it makes perfect sense that Facebook would make a move to force users onto its other apps. Facebook knows it has to branch out and establish an app empire. To do so, it needs to convince users that all of its apps are necessary. With messaging in the main Facebook app, the standalone Messenger app was superfluous. After all, why download an app you don't need?
It seems that Facebook has finally found us all out and will now force us to comply with its vision. Facebook is well-known for upsetting its users with grand changes, but in the end, we always seem to realize that good old Zuckerberg was right - our lives are better this way!
