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Messenger
Messaging app from Meta for chats and calls with Facebook friends
Menlo Park, US
Founded 2011
500+ employees
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Messenger is a messaging app made by Meta. It began as Facebook Chat and became a separate mobile app in 2011. In 2014 Facebook removed messaging from its main mobile app, so people who wanted to chat had to install Messenger.
Users send text, voice messages, photos, videos and stickers, and they make voice and video calls. Group chats can hold many people. Chats are linked to Facebook accounts, which makes it easy to message friends from Facebook. Meta began turning on end-to-end encryption by default for personal chats and calls in 2023. Businesses use Messenger to answer customer questions, often from their Facebook Page.
Messenger is free and has no subscription. Meta earns money from ads elsewhere on its platforms and from businesses that use its messaging tools. The app runs on iOS and Android, and people can also chat on messenger.com and inside Facebook on the web. It remains widely used in the US, Canada and Australia, where many people first met online friends through Facebook.
Users send text, voice messages, photos, videos and stickers, and they make voice and video calls. Group chats can hold many people. Chats are linked to Facebook accounts, which makes it easy to message friends from Facebook. Meta began turning on end-to-end encryption by default for personal chats and calls in 2023. Businesses use Messenger to answer customer questions, often from their Facebook Page.
Messenger is free and has no subscription. Meta earns money from ads elsewhere on its platforms and from businesses that use its messaging tools. The app runs on iOS and Android, and people can also chat on messenger.com and inside Facebook on the web. It remains widely used in the US, Canada and Australia, where many people first met online friends through Facebook.
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