When Facebook Messenger makes its mark on Instagram. Interactions are open between the two services belonging to Facebook, which ultimately wants to bring together all of its messaging services on a common technical platform.
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Announced by Mark Zuckerberg in January 2019, the merger of the various messengers belonging to Facebook on a common technical platform has started. Indeed, as several journalists of the American media have noticed The Verge, a recent update to the Instagram mobile app introduced “a new way of discussing”, with several new features including the possibility “to exchange with friends who use Facebook”.
A rapprochement illustrated in a pop-up by the explicit meeting of the logos of Instagram and Messenger. Moreover, once updated, the Instagram application replaces the traditional icon leading to private discussions with the Facebook Messenger logo.
Still work to do
For now, we are still quite far from having access to a single messaging system interconnecting users of Messenger, Instagram (bought in 2012 for a billion dollars) and WhatsApp (bought in 2014 for 19 billion dollars), but this is Facebook’s wish, and this change tends to show the way. Mark Zuckerberg had explained it, it would certainly take several years for the integration of this new common platform to be completed. This probably explains why, despite this novelty, it is not yet possible to start a new discussion with a Messenger user from Instagram.
Remember also that Mark Zuckerberg’s desire was to offer a single messaging platform encrypting end-to-end conversations. This will not be to the liking of the judicial and police authorities according to which encrypted messaging hinders the proper conduct of investigations.
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