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Comment by Havoc

11 years ago

I never even turned it on. Since they split messenger off I can no longer read read messages on my cellphone...without installing a separate app. Functionality that worked perfectly fine previously until they decided to disable to force messenger onto people.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/28/facebook-moving-messages/

Can't you just open facebook.com in your phone's browser? I've been doing that for a couple of years since noticing that it's both faster and more reliable than the Facebook iOS app.

  • Yeah its tedious though. So mostly I just decide it can wait till I get home and have access to a computer.

    • If you're on Android, you should check out Tinfoil for Facebook. It's a wrapper for facebook's mobile page. I find it more useful than the regular facebook app. You can also get notifications back using IFTTT.

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What about people that only want to use chat, without having the Facebook app. Especially since you don't need a Facebook account to use messenger.

I agree. It is terrible and I have stopped responding to messages on facebook when I'm on mobile.