It seems that Facebook's idea of separating the social network from the messaging application, developing a completely autonomous, has begun to bear fruit.
The company thought it was right and decided to develop Facebook Messenger as a standalone application adding more features, such as a personal assistant, video calls, transport money, instant 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 service antchangeς φωτογραφιών Instagram (ανήκει επίσης στο Faceboοk) είναι επίσης στη λίστα στην 9η θέση με 38,7%. Ενδιαφέρον παρουσιάζει ότι το WhatsApp λείπει αν και πρόσφατα ανακοίνωσε ότι έχει πλέον περισσότερους από 900 εκατομμύρια μηνιαίους users worldwide.
The new trend of sending messages from free services will of course not like it Companies distribution of mobile telephony, which for so many years charged for every SMS.