Messenger will soon be reunited with Facebook’s main app.
Tucked away in a blog post that tries to reassure users that Facebook is definitely not dying, Meta has officially announced that it’s running a test that adds Messenger back into the Facebook app.
“You’ll soon see us expand this test,” Facebook CEO Tom Allison wrote in the post.
Facebook and Messenger first went their separate ways in 2014, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg saying at the time that having Messenger as a separate app allowed for “a better experience.” Now, Meta is reversing this change, and it’s not a big surprise, with the first information about it appearing last summer, with some testing taking place in December.
Facebook is making this change to better compete with TikTok, which has a built-in messaging option that Facebook got rid of almost a decade ago now. But Meta did not say how many people will start seeing the built-in inbox, or if it aims to bring the feature to Facebook’s mobile apps. In its announcement, Facebook also reiterated that it now has more users than ever before.
Contrary to some reports, Facebook is not dead or dying, but is actually alive and thriving with 2 billion daily active users,” Allison writes. “People use Facebook for more than just connecting with friends and family, like discovering and engaging with what’s most important to them.
However, it is not clear how many of these “every day” Facebook users are those who were accidentally drawn to posts on the platform.
A New York Times report reveals that many teens and young adults on Instagram didn’t realize they had checked a box giving Instagram permission to share their posts on Facebook when they signed up for the platform.
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