Facebook Messenger is mandatory to send and receive messages

Starting this week, Facebook will no longer allow you to send and receive messages on mobile iOS and Android other than from the mobile site as well as for its separate Facebook Messenger app. Facebook warned users of the change for several months now. Users of Android and iOS Service should be notified via Facebook and email.

By April, Facebook had "forced" its European users to install the Messenger application on their smartphone in addition to the Facebook application. This selection was then interpreted as a way to fit more clearly in the explosion of mobile messaging services.

Facebook for example, had bought in February 2014 the mobile application WhatsApp messaging for $19 billion. The application had 450 million users - against 638 million for Facebook at that time.

Since then, "before the success" of its application in Europe, Facebook has decided to deploy this change for all users worldwide. Here's what Facebook told to Tech Crunch:

In the coming days, we will continue to inform more people about the fact that if they want to send and receive Facebook messages, they will have to download the Messenger application. As we have said, our goal is to focus on a development effort that will make Messenger the best experience possible mobile messaging and to avoid confusion caused by two experiences separate Facebook mobile messaging. Messenger is used by over 200 million people every month, and we will continue our work to make it a more appealing way to connect people with each other.

Only users of Android and iOS application, however, should experience this change. Nothing should change for example for users of Windows Phone, or Paper. And of course, the Facebook site, including mobile, will not be affected.

And you, will you regret the fact of not being able to chat directly from the Facebook app?