Mark Zuckerberg promises to rebuild Facebook as 'privacy-focused' social network

The post explains more about the company's plans to merge WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram's messaging features, as well as a broader shift to encrypted and ephemeral content across its services.

Notably, the CEO has already spoken about one major change that will come from incorporating these ideas: combining the messaging infrastructure of WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram so that users can message each other between apps even if they don't have an account on each one.

The idea, which was first reported in earlier this year and has already received pushback from some European regulators, would also extend to SMS on Android.

This could also improve convenience in many experiences where people use Facebook or Instagram as their social network and WhatsApp as their preferred messaging service.

With interoperability, you'd be able to use WhatsApp to receive messages sent to your Facebook account without sharing your phone number and the buyer wouldn't have to worry about whether you prefer to be messaged on one network or the other.

You can imagine many simple experiences like this a person discovers a business on Instagram and easily transitions to their preferred messaging app for secure payments and customer support; another person wants to catch up with a friend and can send them a message that goes to their preferred app without having to think about where that person prefers to be reached; or you simply post a story from your day across both Facebook and Instagram and can get all the replies from your friends in one place.

Stories already expire after 24 hours unless you archive them, and that gives people the comfort to share more naturally.

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