Rolling back a feature it introduced in 2015, Facebook Inc. has quietly removed the ability to sign up for its Messenger chat service without a Facebook account. VentureBeat was first to report the ...

Facebook has quietly removed the ability to sign up for Messenger without a Facebook account, the company confirmed to VentureBeat this afternoon. Previously, new users using the Messenger or ...

Facebook Messenger is one of the most widely used messaging services, and you probably know at least a few people who use it exclusively. Some people are moving away from Facebook, but still want to ...

For Facebook refuseniks who still want the ability to chat with Facebook users, you used to be able to sign up for Facebook Messenger without a Facebook account. That’s no longer the case… VentureBeat ...

Facebook accounts are now required for people who are signing up for new Messenger accounts, possibly hinting at the social media company’s future plans for its messaging services. In June 2015, ...

Facebook Messenger brings all your Facebook and Instagram chats into one place, connecting you with your friends and family worldwide. It's among the best communication apps, with a large population ...

Facebook’s various apps have been met with mixed response from users, but if there is one app that Facebook did absolutely right, it would have to be Facebook Messenger. It is by far the most useful ...

It is the popular messaging service used by millions of people around the country. But Facebook Messenger is soon due to stop working for millions of Britons. Meta, the owners of Facebook and WhatsApp ...

Ian Sherr (he/him/his) grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, so he's always had a connection to the tech world. As an editor at large at CNET, he wrote about Apple, Microsoft, VR, video games and ...

These days, a lot of people prefer messaging over receiving phone calls as a form of communication. It's arguably the easier and less intrusive of the two methods and provides the recipient of the ...