New Users Will Need Facebook Account to Signup For Messenger

New users will no longer exist able to sign-up for Facebook Messenger without a Facebook business relationship, the visitor has confirmed. Unlike the old days where your phone number was enough, Facebook Messenger now requires a Facebook account to sign up. Existing users, however, remain unaffected past the new change irrespective of whether they have a Facebook account or not.

The news was confirmed to VentureBeat by an official Facebook spokesperson, who said: "If you're new to Messenger, you'll notice that you lot need a Facebook account to conversation with friends and close connections. Nosotros plant that the vast majority of people who apply Messenger already log in through Facebook and nosotros desire to simplify the procedure. If you already use Messenger without a Facebook account, no need to practise anything".

However, if multiple posts on social media sites and online bulletin boards are anything to become past, some Messenger users without Facebook accounts seem to be having bug logging into the conversation app post-obit the change. Many, similar Redditor u/LitheBeep, are apparently receiving error messages while trying to login with their telephone numbers. "I tin't login to my Facebook-less Messenger business relationship since information technology keeps telling me my account is restricted", they claimed earlier this week.

Facebook's new move seems to be office of CEO Marking Zuckerberg'southward plans to offer an integrated, unified feel across Facebook family unit of apps – WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram. According to him, "People should exist able to use whatever of our apps to reach their friends, and they should be able to communicate across networks easily and securely. We plan to start by making it possible for you to ship messages to your contacts using any of our services, and and then to extend that interoperability to SMS likewise".