Apparently, the idea of Facebook, to separate the social network from the dispatch application messages, 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 app reaches 73,3%, while Facebook Messenger has 59,5% of user preferences smartphones στις ΗΠΑ από ηλικίες 18 ετών και άνω. Το YouTube comes in third place 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.
The new tendency to send messages from free services, of course, will not be liked by the mobile telephony distributors, who for so many years owed every SMS.