Facebook will make its Messenger app mandatory for mobile chat

Facebook announced that it would begin nudging users away from the latter option, and toward Messenger. “We have built a fast and reliable messaging experience through Messenger and now it makes sense for us to focus all our energy and resources on that experience,” the company says in a statement provided to Reuters. Facebook did not provide a precise time frame, but eventually the social networking company will make Messenger mandatory for mobile chatting. At that point, the chat option will be entirely pulled from the core app. via csmonitor