If you have Facebook on your phone, and you have tried to check your messages recently, you will have been asked to download Facebook Messenger.
For some apparently irritating reason, Facebook has decided that users can no longer reply to their private messages using the Facebook app. Instead, Facebook-users are now being forced to download a totally separate app to see their messages.
As happens any time Facebook makes any changes to their online offerings, the world has lost its collective shit.
People are irritated because:
1. Partly, there have been concerns about the privacy settings on the Messenger app.
To download the app in the first place, you have to give it access to the majority of your smartphone’s features including photos and videos, audio recordings, location, wi-fi, calendar phone numbers, text messages and contacts. However, as some sites have pointed out, these permissions are very similar to the existing Facebook app – and also similar to other apps like WhatsApp, Snapchat and Instagram. It’s worth keeping in mind that Facebook Messenger can still collect and use your data for advertising purposes.