Facebook is undoubtedly the most popular social network on the planet. Every day there are millions of walls written on, pictures uploaded and messages exchanged. Along with photo uploads, Facebook chat is the most used service on Facebook, that’s why Facebook keep fine-tuning the message system (and in turn making a lot of people unhappy about the changes). Because of this popularity, Facebook have just released a standalone chat app for iPhone and Android.
- Facebook Messenger Android app
The App, appropriately named Facebook Messenger, is a simple IM (instant messaging) service using Facebook. You simply tap on an existing conversation and type. If you’re not within the App when someone sends you a message, you’ll receive a notification (the same way you would on Facebook on an actual computer).
The release could be considered both poorly timed or perfectly timed in the UK depending how you look on it…
Poorly timed, because right now, many social networks and IM services, such as BBM, Twitter and Facebook have been blamed for helping organise the recent London riots. Although it could be argued that they’ve also been used for post-clean-up operations.
Perfectly timed because Apple’s iOS5 (the operating system used by iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch), which is set for release in the near future, will feature a service called iMessage, allowing users of the above Apple products to message each other, for free, like BBM on BlackBerry devices.
Facebook Messenger is joining a league of many cross-platform messaging services such as Live Profile, which was released not long ago, along with pre-existing WhatsApp messenger, one of the most popular free Apps ever on the iTunes Store and consistently in the ‘Top 10 Free Apps’ chart. To get started on What’s App, you only need a phone number or name and you can get chatting to them straight away.
It remains clear that Facebook have big plans for Facebook messages, and right now the App remains rather basic; with the aim to get as many users of Facebook to use Facebook messages to its full potential.
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