The Facebook app allows you to stay in touch and share information with friends right on the go. Chat, see new photos and friends’ statuses, find phone numbers, upload high-resolution photos and experience all the Facebook tools you want on your iPhone or iPad.
The official mobile client of the social network is available for iOS, BlackBerry, Android and webOS. The typical features of full-featured Facebook clients include status updates, viewing feeds, events, walls, user information, sharing links, adding messages, uploading photos and watching videos. Relatively recently, Facebook released another official mobile application called Facebook Messenger, positioned as a “fast way to send mobile messages to friends.” Facebook Messenger’s functionality is limited to text messaging, and all of the app’s additional functionality is limited to the ability to add photos and current coordinates, as well as group discussions. But Facebook Messenger will help to communicate with users of Facebook and those who don’t have Facebook-accounts, but by means of text messages.
Facebook has not forgotten about the owners of usual cell phones, whose functionality can be improved only due to JAVA applications. A program has been released, the essence of which follows from its name – Facebook for Every Phone. The compatibility list of the application includes more than 2500 different cell phone models. It allows you to read your news feed, view and upload photos, correspond with your friends, edit your personal profile and even create a new account. Also, without leaving the application, you can work with the device camera and access the address book.
Following Facebook and WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger has passed an important milestone.
Another application that is part of the Facebook ecosystem passed the milestone of 5 billion downloads in the Google Play app store – Facebook Messenger.
The third non-Google app in history to break the milestone of 5 billion downloads on Google Play
If you don’t count Google developments, only two other applications around the world managed to achieve this result – the client of the social network Facebook itself and the messenger WhatsApp, which was once bought by Facebook.
Overall, Facebook Messenger became the fourteenth app to join the “club of 5 billion on Google Play,” along with YouTube, Google Maps, and Gmail.
Despite no small amount of controversy, this milestone shows how much people rely on Facebook for communication. The company is now working to expand its “chat empire,” which will eventually allow all three of Facebook’s messaging apps to work together – Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram.
