Facebook has the requirement that users create an account with the social network needed for its Messenger service dropping in the Android version. This is the instant messaging service to compete with alternatives such as WhatsApp, Google Talk, and sms.
Starting Tuesday, users of an Android device that had an account want to create Facebook Messenger only their name and phone number in the app. A Facebook account is not required. In the first instance, only users in India, Australia, Indonesia, Venezuela, and South Korea in this way to sign in, but Facebook promises the functionality quickly to other countries to roll out.
Facebook Messenger include the ability to group conversations by chat, to run and photos to share. Now, the requirement of a Facebook account was deleted, Facebook with its Messenger direct competition with the popular WhatsApp. It is not known when the account-requirement to other platforms, such as iOS, released is going to be.
The news comes at a time when there were rumors about a possible acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook. WhatsApp has let you know that those rumors ‘not accurate’.
Update, 16:49: According to The Standard, the functionality is the following week worldwide. The newspaper claims to know on the basis of the pr-office of Facebook.
