Messenger Review

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Review of Messenger powered by the Slant community.

Messenger is an instant messaging service and software application which provides text and voice communication.

SpecsUpdate

PlatformsAndroid / iOS / WP

PublisherFacebook

File SizeVaries with device

Required Android VersionVaries with device

End-to-end encryptionNo

VideoconferencingYes

Mediaimages / video / audio / emoji / stickers

Audio recordingYes

VoIPYes

Groups≤150

Messaging systemsData

Video recordingYes

Locationsharingyes

In-App PurchasesNone

Server stored messagesPermanent

MultideviceYes

Cloud SyncYes

Message DeletionNo

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Pros

Pro
Uses Facebook friends to create a contacts list

Allows communicating with anyone who's a friend on Facebook.

Pro
Read receipts

Can see who has seen each message in group messages.

Pro
Easy to share posts from Facebook

Integration with Facebook makes it easy to share any interesting posts from the Facebook timeline.

Pro
Great UI

User interface of the application is clean, intuitive and easy to overview.

Cons

Con
Lack of privacy

Messenger is owned by Facebook. Based on their privacy policy, this means that any information you provide (including messages sent) are used by Facebook to profile you and sell access to your data to advertisers.

Con
Lack of end-to-end encryption

Secret (end-to-end encrypted) chats are only supported in one-to-one messages, and are not enabled by default, and the encryption has not been verified independently.