Apparently, his idea Facebook, να διαχωρίσει το κοινωνικό δίκτυο από την application messaging, developing a completely autonomous, began to bear fruit.
The company considered it right and decided to develop Facebook Messenger as a standalone application adding more features, such as a personal assistant, video calls, money transfer, direct video sharing and more.
Result; Facebook Messenger has become the second most popular messaging application in the United States. The Facebook main application occupies the first place. 
According to the latest data from comScore, a digital analytics company, Facebook's main application reaches 73,3%, while Facebook Messenger has 59,5% in US smartphone user preferences from 18 ages and over. YouTube is ranked third with 59,3%.
The popular photo sharing service Instagram (also owned by Facebook) is also on the list in 9th place with 38,7%. Interestingly, WhatsApp is missing even though it recently announced that it now has more than 900 million monthly users worldwide.
H νέα τάση αποστολής μηνυμάτων από δωρεάν services, the mobile phone distribution companies, which for so many years charged for each SMS, will of course not like it.
