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 ...

Facebook says that it won’t allow you to start using Messenger without a Facebook account anymore. From 2015, Facebook allowed people to sign up for Messenger using their phone number along with their ...

These days, a lot of people prefer messaging over receiving phone calls as a form of communication. It's arguably the easier and less intrusive of the two methods and provides the recipient of the ...

You'll no longer be able to sign up for Messenger if you don't have a Facebook account. Back in 2015, the social network started allowing potential users to sign up for its messaging app using only ...

Facebook FB has recently changed the way to access its chat service platform, Messenger for its new users. The social media giant now requires new users to sign into their Facebook account to access ...

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 ...

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A handful of years ago, Facebook made a change with its Messenger app that was largely praised: it no longer required users to have a Facebook account in order to sign up for the messaging service.

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 ...