Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has framed the messaging tool merger as an added convenience for users. Jane Manchun Wong, who’s known for uncovering unreleased features and vulnerabilities in software, has discovered a tool that she says would allow users to message one another without leaving the Facebook app for Messenger, as they must do now. Facebook is bringing the Chats back to the app for preparing integrated messagingTip @Techmeme pic.twitter.com/LABK7qrk0e — Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) April 12, 2019Facebook removed the ability to chat in its app in 2014, which compelled users to install Messenger, the standalone chat app it launched in 2011. But to send message reactions, call someone or send photos, the Messenger app would still be required, she said. The company estimates that more than 2 billion people, on average, use Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or Messenger every day.

Source: Washington Post April 12, 2019 14:48 UTC