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It will hopefully reduce the memory and processing the main Facebook app leaves and at the same time it will give everyone a great opportunity to ditch the Facebook messaging service in favour of the plethora of other messaging apps already installed on their devices.
I, for one, will stop using the Facebook messenger entirely on my phone.
It's sad, but I really do feel bad for the people who use Facebook nowadays. When I have to look at the job market again, I'm really not looking forward to having to (a) sign up in the first place, (b) have that stupid like button following me around everywhere again and (c) have to become "friends" with people that I really don't want to see anymore.
And then they bought Oculus VR. Seriously?
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I was under the impression they're consolidating 2 messaging front ends into one? I guess they're really just deleting one, but same difference.
You could see it as that but if you were only using the Facebook app you'd be going from a single app to two apps
Now there'll be one app with Facebook chat and one Facebook app without chat. No fragmentation.
I see this as a good thing. It will hopefully reduce the memory and processing the main Facebook app leaves and at the same time it will give everyone a great opportunity to ditch the Facebook messaging service in favour of the plethora of other messaging apps already installed on their devices. I, for one, will stop using the Facebook messenger entirely on my phone.
Difficult to imagine them not reversing this decision at a later date.
The new battlefield is the real estate on your phone´s front page. FB + Messenger + Instagram + Whatsapp: 4 out of 16 icons, not bad.
This is just an opportunity for Facebook to show twice as many ads as usual. It's sad, but I really do feel bad for the people who use Facebook nowadays. When I have to look at the job market again, I'm really not looking forward to having to (a) sign up in the first place, (b) have that stupid like button following me around everywhere again and (c) have to become "friends" with people that I really don't want to se…
For people like myself who have Facebook on my mobile but not the messaging app it means we now need to install it. For some percentage of folks like myself that means we might start using facebook messaging more instead of using it as the messaging platform of last resort.
I see this as a good thing. It will hopefully reduce the memory and processing the main Facebook app leaves and at the same time it will give everyone a great opportunity to ditch the Facebook messaging service in favour of the plethora of other messaging apps already installed on their devices. I, for one, will stop using the Facebook messenger entirely on my phone.