Help me understand - why is this so bad?
Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
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Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
#22"Your conversations are moving to Messenger"
No problem. It's not there's conversations with dead people in there or anything.
Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
#23"Your conversations are moving to Messenger" No problem. It's not there's conversations with dead people in there or anything.
The conversations are not lost; they're stored on Facebook's servers.
There are plenty of reasons to dislike the move, but this isn't one.
Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
#24So rather than fixing the problems that result in users messaging via the mobile web app instead of the messenger app, they're just going to "solve" the problem by forcing users to use the messenger app? This is why Facebook as a company doesn't have high levels of consumer trust. This will bite them in the future. Once you lose that level of trust it is extremely difficult to gain back.
Well said
Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
#25I'm surprised at all the hate coming from everyone. Then again I already use messenger.com never used the mobile web app for chat.
Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
#26So rather than fixing the problems that result in users messaging via the mobile web app instead of the messenger app, they're just going to "solve" the problem by forcing users to use the messenger app? This is why Facebook as a company doesn't have high levels of consumer trust. This will bite them in the future. Once you lose that level of trust it is extremely difficult to gain back.
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Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
#27I dislike this change. I specifically only access Facebook on my phone via the web app because (1) it saves significant battery and (2) I absolutely do not want the popup bubbles during the work day from church and other social groups I am connected to on Facebook. Ultimately, all this means is that I will stop accessing Facebook Messenger on my phone all together. I will communicate with the people who matter most o…
Protip: www.messenger.com works on computers.
Doesn't seem to work on mobile tho
Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
#28Eventually facebook will become so user hostile the network effect will mean that so many people are leaving it'll be like Digg and Myspace all over again. Can we go back to the time when companies tried to please users instead of advertisers?
I bet this was the decision made by the board members for the "share holder value" in attempts to increase earning per share via advertisement. Once the messenger gains enough users, it's obvious that there will be ads on FB messenger
Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
#29So rather than fixing the problems that result in users messaging via the mobile web app instead of the messenger app, they're just going to "solve" the problem by forcing users to use the messenger app? This is why Facebook as a company doesn't have high levels of consumer trust. This will bite them in the future. Once you lose that level of trust it is extremely difficult to gain back.
I have no qualms using WhatsApp. It is a very efficient and useful app. They should probably merge messenger and WhatsApp (or maybe not lest they end up making WhatsApp bad too)
Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
#30So rather than fixing the problems that result in users messaging via the mobile web app instead of the messenger app, they're just going to "solve" the problem by forcing users to use the messenger app? This is why Facebook as a company doesn't have high levels of consumer trust. This will bite them in the future. Once you lose that level of trust it is extremely difficult to gain back.
I suspect it's less about solving problems and more about breaking out of that web browser sandbox to siphon up more of that juicy, juicy data.