Facebook Messenger App Forced Download: Mark Zuckerberg Explains

[engine]

Now we know his thinking behind the "encouragement" of the use of the Messenger app. It doesn't entirely explain why folks couldn't continue doing what they were doing in parallel.

"Asking everyone in our community to install a new app is a big ask. I appreciate that that was work and required friction. We wanted to do this because we believe that this is a better experience. Messaging is becoming increasingly important. On mobile, each app can only focus on doing one thing well, we think.

The primary purpose of the Facebook app is News Feed. Messaging was this behavior people were doing more and more."Facebook Messenger App Forced Download: Mark Zuckerberg Explains [theverge.com]

[RandallTT]

I think the main reason why people hate the Messenger app is because it brings too much hassle. Not everyone is into messaging and chatting and most of these people prefer simple message sharing on Facebook. Some have this one-time very important kind of messages on Facebook and in this situations, the downloading and installing of Messenger App can bring a lot of stress to the users.