WASHINGTON: The social website Facebook has announced that users doesn’t need site’s account as now users the option to sign up for its Messenger chat app.
“If you’re in Canada, the United States, Peru or Venezuela, we are starting to roll out a new way for you to sign up for Messenger – without a Facebook account,” the social network said in a blog post.
After opening up the app on a phone, tablet or the web, you’ll be asked if you want to sign up with a Facebook account or if you’re “Not on Facebook.”
If you don’t have an account, you’ll be given the option to upload your phone contacts. Messenger will then match users that have their numbers linked to their Facebook (or Messenger) accounts.
The new update to the chat application will give Facebook-less users regular Messenger features, like photos, videos, group chats, voice and video calling and stickers.
However, if you don’t have a Facebook account, you will miss out on things like syncing across phones, tablets and web as well as accessing Facebook friends’ contacts and older messages.
