Facebook has decided to combine Instagram and Messenger

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Facebook has decided to combine Instagram and Messenger

20.08.2020 News

Facebook has begun merging Messenger and Instagram chats into a single correspondence system. The Verge writes about it. Reportedly, till August 14, many users of both iOS and Android devices in the Instagram mobile application began to receive notifications about the possibility of correspondence with friends who use Facebook.

After the update, the usual Direct Messages icon changes to the FB Messeger logo. Now Instagram chats have become even more colorful. However, at the moment it is impossible to write from Instagram to a Facebook user.

The publication indicates that Facebook plans to add the ability to communicate with Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp users cross-platform. Facebook planned to rebuild the infrastructure so that all applications owned by Facebook could connect to each other.

Let’s add that Facebook bought Instagram for $ 1 billion in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 for $ 19 billion.

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