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Add to SafariWhen comparing Messenger vs Google Slides, the Slant community recommends Messenger for most people. In the question“What are the best Material Design apps?” Messenger is ranked 22nd while Google Slides is ranked 33rd. The most important reason people chose Messenger is:
Allows communicating with anyone who's a friend on Facebook.
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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.
Pro Simple and clean
Google Slides is a more back-to-basics type of presentation software, so no distractions with a multitude of options and settings.
Pro Free to use
Google Slides does offer a paid version but features are not limited by pricing.
Pro Ease of sharing and collaboration
As with all Google Documents, Google Slides can easily be shared since they live in the cloud, multiple users can also edit the slides and comment at the same time.
Pro Multi-platform
Google Slides lives in the cloud, it can be viewed and edited from virtually any platform.
Pro No software to install and maintain
Since Google Slides live in the cloud means there's no need to maintain the application. There's also nothing to install and nothing to update.
Pro No version number
Being a web-platform keeps it always up-to-date, saves the trouble of errors when presenting on older versions.
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.
Con Limited offline functionality
Some of the tools are unavailable when editing presentations offline.
Con Just the basics
Google Slides often lack the tools for power users when editing presentations.
Con Files are stored in Google servers
In case the servers go down, your files will be inaccessible for the time being.
Con It is a Google product
Your data privacy at Google is debatable.
