Facebook has quietly removed the ability to sign up for Messenger without a Facebook account, the company confirmed to VentureBeat this afternoon. Previously, new users using the Messenger or ...

Welp, the days of being able to sign up for Facebook's Messenger service without also being a member of the social network are apparently over. If you have friends and family members who have been ...

What just happened? Messenger is the second-most-popular messaging app in the world, but not every user has a Facebook account. Now, however, that's no longer an option for new signups after the ...

Rolling back a feature it introduced in 2015, Facebook Inc. has quietly removed the ability to sign up for its Messenger chat service without a Facebook account. VentureBeat was first to report the ...

While most of Messengers users have Facebook accounts, there is still a portion of people who don't want to have a Facebook account, but still want to use the messaging service. Times are now changing ...

Facebook accounts are now required for people who are signing up for new Messenger accounts, possibly hinting at the social media company’s future plans for its messaging services. In June 2015, ...

Ian Sherr (he/him/his) grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, so he's always had a connection to the tech world. As an editor at large at CNET, he wrote about Apple, Microsoft, VR, video games and ...

Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here After breaking off Messenger into a standalone app, Facebook is giving the texting app a new level of autonomy ...

For Facebook refuseniks who still want the ability to chat with Facebook users, you used to be able to sign up for Facebook Messenger without a Facebook account. That’s no longer the case… VentureBeat ...

From now on, you cannot just create a Facebook Messenger account with only a phone number. Just this week, Facebook's control of Just recently, Facebook Messenger got stricter as the social networking ...