Facebook is working to enable messaging between Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp, according to with a report from the The New York Timesthis morning.
Each service will continue to function as a standalone application, but according to the Teams , Facebook is rebuilding the infrastructure so that people who use just one of Facebook's apps can communicate with others within the company's ecosystem. All apps will also support end-to-end encryption. Facebook has yet to provide a timeline for when that will happen.
“Queremos construir as melhores experiências de mensagens que pudermos; e as pessoas querem que as mensagens sejam rápidas, simples, confiáveis e privadas ”, disse um porta-voz do Facebook em um comunicado. “Estamos trabalhando para tornar mais criptografados os nossos produtos de mensagens end-to-end e considerando formas de facilitar o contato com amigos e familiares nas redes . As you would expect, there is a lot of discussion and debate as we begin the long process of figuring out all the details of how this will work.”
By allowing these messaging apps to communicate across platforms, Facebook is no doubt hoping to keep users more engaged and encourage them to use this merged system as their primary messaging service. In doing so, the company can also drive greater user engagement for advertisers, boosting its advertising business at a time when growth has slowed.
Facebook has the most users of any social media platform, and by combining its assets in this way, the company could compete more directly with Apple's iMessage and Google's messaging services.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the project – “The integration that we envision, we’re just beginning to think about it,” said the co-creator and president of Facebook.
SOURCE: THE VERGE
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