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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

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Post by nl »

oneloop wrote: post #230

It's really sad to me to see a bunch of intelligent people here being led like sheep by Facebook (no, this isn't a sheeple post, hear me out) Virtually everyone here complains "Facebook does XYZ really bad but I still use them because all my friends are there". I have a solution. Why don't you get all your friends off there? Pick a platform that you really like and start evangelising. The only reason why Facebook has…

Why? I like Facebook. It's a pretty well designed social application. I'm using it a lot more than I was a year ago, primarily for interacting with technology groups on it.

Some people just like complaining.

Really people should complain about Twitter's inability to innovate at all. They were the one Western Social Network capable of taking FB on, and yet it's basically the same thing it was 5 years ago. I use Twitter a lot too, but I wish for what it could be.

Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger

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Post by lucb1e »

k-mcgrady wrote: post #205
marme wrote: post #103

i refuse to install the mobile app because there is no way to stop people from calling you on messenger. There is no way to turn it off or have some kind of do not disturb. If someone wants to mess with you they can just keep calling you and your only choice is to block them and remove them from your friends list

>> "If someone wants to mess with you they can just keep calling you and your only choice is to block them and remove them from your friends list" This seems like either a made up scenario or you have weird friends. Who would keep calling someone to 'mess with them'???

A classmate when you're holding a presentation? It sounds entirely plausible to me.

Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger

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Post by Koshkin »

therein wrote: post #157
bookwormAT wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, I did not intent to vote that post, but now I upvoted it just to undo your mistake.

He agreed with him so I just upvoted his post to give him back the upvote he meant.

I have always found it surprising that someone may honestly think that upvoting and downvoting can be used to express agreement or disagreement. If you strongly agree or disagree, just reply with a post of your own; up/downvoting is there so you could express your opinion on the quality of the post rather than whether you think that what it is saying is true or false.

Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger

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Post by lucb1e »

cm2187 wrote: post #133

I am not a mobile app junkie, and I count the number of messaging apps on my mobile: imessage, whatsapp, kik. That's already 3, ie two too many. Then I would need to add facebook, telegram, google's latest thing, skype? I mean why not a different messaging app for each contact? Why does facebook thinks I need more messaging apps?

The only messaging app I have installed is Telegram. People who can't use that (my cousin still has some old Blackberry, a classmate has no smartphone and my dad has no messaging apps) can use good ol' SMS, and that works fine since it's practically free nowadays. Problem solved.

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Post by lucb1e »

stared wrote: post #141

And I couldn't be happier. I discovered Messenger as "FB chat without all the distractions" (and much snappier); and seeing that it gets prioritized (instead of being an alternative way) is, for me, a good thing.

Fine that you are happy with it (though I have moral concerns with Facebook as a whole, if you're happy with it, that's quite alright). However should that mean that everyone has to be happy with installing this app, instead of being given the choice to use the website?

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mfkp wrote: post #15

This announcement coming on the same day as the post about Facebook not using the microphone in the app seems strange to me. I don't want any Facebook apps on my phone due to privacy and tracking reasons, and so I used the web view (with an app wrapper like Tinfoil with location disabled), now I won't be able to send messages any longer. Guess I won't be using Messenger any longer.

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