they did this before and rolled it back, if i'm remembering things correctly.
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
#92Simple solution: don't chat on Facebook. Reply via the web interface and tell the other person to send you an email, SMS, or Google Hangouts message.
Simple yes, practical no.
Practical enough for me. The only thing I use Facebook for is to say "Thank you" when folks wish me a happy birthday on my "wall". For literally everything else, the friends and family worth talking to have gotten the message that I'm not reliably reachable on Facebook and therefore should be reached by other means (and if they're worth talking to, they should already have my phone number and/or email address).
It's about drawing a line. I drew that line two years ago, and not once have I looked back or otherwise felt any semblance of regret or frustration from it. Among SMS, email, Telegram, Google+/Hangouts, ordinary phone calls, snail mail, in-person, and the cornucopia of other communications options out there, there's zero reason to put up with Facebook's nonsense.
Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
#93Help me understand - why is this so bad?
Some people don't want any Facebook software in their phones for legitimate privacy reasons.
Not to mention that Facebook's apps are notorious for their battery usage (probably because of their egregious privacy-violating "features", but whatever).
Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
#94Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
#95Eventually 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?
You mean like AOL? I haven't seen your vitriol since the last big FB redesign that even my aunt complained about, which was like what, 5 years ago? I even posted something to FB in the last few years, once it was apparent that FB had not done further obvious redesigns, "remember back when we all hated FB and were going to never use it again?" Nobody replied or liked it.
FB is the Great Mall of the Internet, people don't really care if it sucks because it's just a place where people are. Many don't even have a concept of websites sucking.
Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
#96Facebook's "Paper" app has a better UI than the official client, and it still has messaging directly integrated.
Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
#97So 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.
Apologies, my computer mouse malfunctioned and I downvoted you while swapping between windows, and I felt so bad about doing so I feel compelled to comment :(
And I actually agree with you...
Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
#98Eventually 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?
Has there ever been a time like that?
Sounds like you have a bad case of "back in my day"-itis.
Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
#99Try Mbasic.facebook.com instead. I also use the browser for Facebook, and have now switched to mbasic instead. It's great.
Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
#100I have stopped using Facebook (Twitter and everything social) half a decade ago. I don't use messaging apps and turn on my phone only when I really need to. Result: more free time to do interesting and productive things and people aren't bothering me as much. I have taken control of my life and I'm not being pushed around to do things based on notifications or desire for artificial status(likes, retweet, stars). Stop…
I concur with you. I realized that social apps were taking too much of my time an uninstalled them from my phone. I only use my laptop to access fb and Twitter and I'm very happy with the move.