The benefit of using Facebook Messenger is that you don’t need to be tied to a single phone number, like with WhatsApp. It proved to be wildly successful, currently amassing over a billion monthly users. In 2011, Facebook created a standalone Messenger application with text chat as well as voice and video calls capabilities.

And informing people who is the boss of this apps.Even though Facebook is getting criticized more and more frequently nowadays, it’s still the most dominant social media platform, with nearly three billion monthly active users. The aim is to bring all these three apps under the influence and control of Facebook, probably to satisfy the curiosity of US congressmen. But this can be traced to bugs, which will be fixed in no time.Įarlier, Facebook changed its Logo, added “From Facebook” to its three major messaging services, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram. Unfortunately, some users who do not have the Facebook account but using the messenger app have reported that the feature isn’t working as expected. While old users who had already sign-up on Messenger with their phone numbers can still use Messenger without a Facebook account, no need to do anything. Well, this new update is only for the new users who are coming thru.

Messenger now requires a Facebook account to work effectively.įacebook removed the option to sign up with a mobile phone number only on Messenger, and they have also extended the mandatory requirement to sign up with a Facebook Account on both Messenger and Messenger Lite app. In order for new users to have a Facebook messenger account, you must have already register on Facebook.

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