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Instagram Testing Standalone Direct Messaging App, Hinting at Potential Removal of DMs From Core App

I personally think this is a terrible idea. I hate that Facebook did this and, frankly, it's one of the reasons I don't even use Facebook all that much anymore. No need for 2+ apps when everything can be done in a single app much more efficiently.
 
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riverfreak said:
Still haven’t installed the Facebook messenger app and never will. I haven’t deleted my account but have disconnected all apps and 3rd party logins and never actually log in to Facebook anymore. I’ll return when they start paying me for the data I provide them.
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Facebook will never pay its users, as you know.

If I were you, I would take the last step and simply delete my account. As long as you're in their database, they can still garner information about you.
 
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aaronhead14 said:
I personally think this is a terrible idea. I hate that Facebook did this and, frankly, it's one of the reasons I don't even use Facebook all that much anymore. No need for 2+ apps when everything can be done in a single app much more efficiently.
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Maybe, but I like FB messenger, it allows me to contact my friends without using actual app, at first I didn't like it, but now I wouldn't go back.
Instagram is not like Facebook, but recently I realised I talk some of my friends on Instagram, maybe in the future they would make their messaging features as good as Facebook messenger.
 
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Given the tight integration between Instagram and Facebook, why not just merge the direct messaging systems?

I’m sure it was considered but, whatever their reasons, you can be sure it’s not for the benefit of their users.
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Because most people don’t like their Instagram associated with their personal Facebook.
 
H3LL5P4WN said:
It started going downhill when FB bought them. They accelerated the slide into a free fall when they allowed green bubble people in. Then came the non-chronological feed that you can't disable (so now I rarely see anything outside of from a handful of people.

This will just be the last nail in the coffin.
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I no longer use Instagram. Deleted it when FB bought them.
 
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Seriously, phone/text messaging has always been the best method to keep in touch with those that actually matter.

As a 30 year old, it's sad that social media is my generations "gift" to man kind. We have provided something that is just as addictive as drugs are and yet is socially acceptable. Peoples lives go to waste. Imagine the man power hours wasted scrolling through tweets, posts, etc that could have been used to strive for something truly life changing. Shallow, self conceited, entitled, and so many more adjectives describes my generation perfectly.
 
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What a completely unnecessary and user-hostile move. So in order to have a FB and an IG you now need at least FOUR apps, not including options like Hyperlapse, Boomerang, and Layout. And why? So they can push more ads? Collect more data? Command more space on your phone? Just insane...
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drewyboy said:
Seriously, phone/text messaging has always been the best method to keep in touch with those that actually matter.

As a 30 year old, it's sad that social media is my generations "gift" to man kind. We have provided something that is just as addictive as drugs are and yet is socially acceptable. Peoples lives go to waste. Imagine the man power hours wasted scrolling through tweets, posts, etc that could have been used to strive for something truly life changing. Shallow, self conceited, entitled, and so many more adjectives describes my generation perfectly.
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Not to mention all the "public figures" who make money solely for being attractive and taking photos of themselves 24/7.
 
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It's time for Apple to make a policy against this kind of thing.

It's really just gaming the App Store chart system to become #1 instead of #3. Facebook and Instagram are stagnating, and less new users download their apps. Therefore, they need current users to download a new app to appear relevant.
 
GrumpyMom said:
I’m wasnt thrilled with how FB ripped Messenger out and made it a stand alone app. Then I decided I could see the benefits after all, and used it with my friends for awhile. But very quickly they cluttered it up with data mining crap and intrusive features. I thought I was just old and grumpy in my negative reaction and quick dumping of FB and their messaging app.

But my millennial nieces and nephews said they were irritated by it all, too.

I do perceive among my friends and family a “connectedness overload” and think social media overplayed their hand by adding on too many features that allowed people to become too intrusive on each other’s personal space.

It becomes harder to politely decline allowing oneself to have their online status or physical location tracked, or the pressure to acknowledge all of your friends’ posts becomes too demanding when you just want to sit back and relax. So it can become more attractive for some of us to opt out of social media at all.

Sometimes we just need our time and our schedules and our thoughts to ourselves and it’s very unpleasant to be tethered to a service that is doing its damnedest to pry those things out of us and distribute it all to the world.
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Yeah. knew I wasn’t going to use FB messenger at all after the split when it asks you every two or three launches to turn on notifications and asks TWICE. Then it constantly shows you a ! like it’s something important. nope. just trying to get you to turn on notifications. it’s total garbage.

every time someone with my ****ing phone number messages me through FB i respond by picking up my phone and sending a text to their phone. I cannot stand messenger since the split.

i’d welcome instagram throwing direct into an app i won’t use.
 
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H3LL5P4WN said:
It started going downhill when FB bought them. They accelerated the slide into a free fall when they allowed green bubble people in. Then came the non-chronological feed that you can't disable (so now I rarely see anything outside of from a handful of people.

This will just be the last nail in the coffin.
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Who are the "green bubble people" and how did they accelerate the "slide into a free fall"?
 
The only reason I can see for this is that Facebook is losing young people in droves and Messenger useage is dwindling as a result.

No way they’d cannibalize Messenger if it wasn’t necessary. This is desperation to keep a demographic in the FB/IG ecosystem.
 
marty11 said:
The only reason I can see for this is that Facebook is losing young people in droves and Messenger useage is dwindling as a result.

No way they’d cannibalize Messenger if it wasn’t necessary. This is desperation to keep a demographic in the FB/IG ecosystem.
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So how would this help/affect that?
 
deadoctopi said:
Yeah. knew I wasn’t going to use FB messenger at all after the split when it asks you every two or three launches to turn on notifications and asks TWICE. Then it constantly shows you a ! like it’s something important. nope. just trying to get you to turn on notifications. it’s total garbage.

every time someone with my ****ing phone number messages me through FB i respond by picking up my phone and sending a text to their phone. I cannot stand messenger since the split.

i’d welcome instagram throwing direct into an app i won’t use.
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Oh wow I had forgotten about that! That was pretty freaking annoying. It is right up there with the nagging iOS gives us to update. I hate notifications that I can not customize or turn off.
 
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tmoRumors said:
I have not installed FB Messenger on purpose, and will probably end up doing the same for the Instagram DM app. Splitting functionalities over several apps seems to also come with an inflation to the cumulative size of those apps... 240M of storage space for the latest FB app update taken alone !
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I tried it once. Constant begging to enable notifications and location sharing got it a quick trip to the delete button.
 
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trusso said:
Facebook will never pay its users, as you know.

If I were you, I would take the last step and simply delete my account. As long as you're in their database, they can still garner information about you.
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I’m close, but on rare occassions, i need to contact someone on facebook. This is particularly true when traveling and contacting people who use facebook as their primary business website.

Facebook has tons of information on everyone including people that don’t have accounts, via, for example, credit reporting.

Rarely logging in, blocking cookies, disconnecting apps, and preventing them from access to my location is the best I can do for now.
 
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