Messenger

Coming from the days when teenagers would tie up the family phone line for hours - just sitting on the line w your bestie, one who you just spent most of ur day at school, you get chores done-homework complete & sit on the phone for the rest of the night - not saying much of anything-The only way anyone else might get thru would be a Emergency Breakthrough- Additionally if the person who made the call is outside of the others city limit- well that call is going to COST YOU.! We’ll cost your parent paying the mo. bill - While today … we get on iMessenger & ⏰talk for hours with out any long distance fees! Imagine the money spent on Long-Distance and let me tell you … it was never cheap..! So when ask for a review or to critique my 1.56hr. conversation- It was splendid 📱🎖️To imagine the savings well … i’d take a high phone bill vs. all the added modern conveniences the internet has brought us - The trade off - well there isn’t one - but communicating w a friend across the pond for hours at no additional cost is one positive perk and wonder just how long it’ll last-They soon will figure out a way to take more for the lil they already got for free and we the consumer will roll over since we don’t have a choice !

This is a great app although I agree with billyjoeee about how you should figure out (fix rather) the searching for old messages thing. I need to see old messages to get important information and am unable to do that because it is not easy to just search for the first messages and find them directly. Hopefully this can be fixed... I know many who do not like this and want it to be fixed as well and many who will not speak up and write a review may think the same. Don’t want to go through having to pull out a laptop (that i never use... mostly on my phone, as are many, we’re in 2018 ...) and it would be more effective if you would just fix this issue so that we could have easy access to older messages dating even years back (that may contain important information that one needs to use...). Also. Upon opening a conversation and typing the app brings itself back to the home page ( where all conversations are) and I have to reopen that person’s message and start all over. don’t know if others have this problem... might be my phone?... Next. When I send a message it shows automatically that that person is active when I know it is not the case. Another bug?... Overall amazing app though other than those three little teeny bugs. Recommend this to many who have friends they want to keep in contact with but do not have their phone number. Also recommend to those needing to communicate with others internationally( USA to EUROPE, ASIA) !! Amazing App overall (disregarding minor flaws) !! love it 💕💕💕

I am mostly enjoying the Messenger app in terms of its features and functionality. One of the ways I feel displeased with it is that, when I’m on Facebook and I casually tap on something that I’m curious about, just to see what it is, I suddenly find that I’m getting messages from the business that is involved. I want to be able to check something out without getting on someone’s contact list and receiving solicitations from them, as if I asked them to contact me. I want to be asked whether or not I want to be contacted by a vendor and not automatically have my contact info sent to be solicited when I simply wanted to take a peek at something that looked kind of interesting. This makes me want to avoid ads or anything that might be connected to a business. My other concern is somewhat related. It is the general distrust I have towards Meta regarding privacy, tracking, Etc. I feel like they’re always trying to see what they can get away with and often get caught overreaching and putting profit before respecting people‘s privacy rights. They seem to only back down or back off when they are caught and then give a tepid apology, only to do it again a little while later; like their “sorry“ is really, “sorry we were caught“ and not, “sorry we we’re not respectful of your rights.” It seems like disregarding privacy rights is just part of their business model and that they figure that the benefits outweigh the cost; like it’s a mathematical calculation, rather than a value or standard towards respecting others.