Facebook has stopped supporting the ability to sign up for Messenger without account to the greatest social network.
Earlier, new users who used the application Messenger or Messenger Lite could choose to use their phone number instead of creating a new Facebook account.
So if you are new to Messenger, you will notice that you no longer need a Facebook account to chat with your friends.
The Facebook started supporting the ability to subscribe to Messenger countries social network account in June 2015, first in the US, Canada, Peru and Venezuela.
This particular change probably comes to help with an upcoming consolidation of various shipping services messages of Facebook, such as WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger. The New York Times reported in January that the technical infrastructure used by the three services will be integrated, redefining the way more than three billion people around the world communicate.
WhatsApp has over 1,5 billion monthly active users, while Messenger and Instagram have over 1,3 billion and 1 billion, respectively.
In a statement in early 2019, CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined Facebook's plan for a shift to encrypted, ephemeral messaging.
"Users should be able to use any of our applications to reach their friends and should be able to communicate with other networks easily and securely." mentioned on the blog.
“We plan to start by making it possible to send messages to your contacts using any of our services, and then expand this throughfunctionalalso in SMS".
