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Facebook May Finally Stop Forcing You to Use Its Messenger App

In the top right corner, you can see the same Messenger icon that brings you to a chat window right in the main app itself.

This all tracks with recent news that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to roll Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger into a single platform. The New York Times cited sources within Facebook as saying that while the services will remain as their own apps, the tech behind all three will be unified.

Its possible that rolling chat back into the main Facebook app is part of this effort, though its not clear if or when it will roll out to the general public.

Since then, Instagrams and WhatsApps founders have all departedrather abruptlyafter Zuckerberg started weighing in more.

And, given all the bad press following Facebooks seemingly never-ending series of scandals, lumping all these apps together might be a ploy at keeping users locked in and engaged.

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Author: Victoria Song

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