Facebook has quietly removed the ability to sign up for Messenger without a Facebook account, the company confirmed to VentureBeat this afternoon. Previously, new users using the Messenger or ...

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 ...

These instructions apply to the Messenger app on your mobile device. Now, even if you open Messenger to read or send messages, it won't show that you're online. This is a great way to discourage your ...

SAN FRANCISCO — For years Facebook and Messenger were so deeply intertwined, you couldn't have one without the other. Not anymore. On Wednesday, Messenger began letting people without a Facebook ...

Those in the U.S., Canada, Peru, and Venezuela will soon be able to sign up for Messenger with just a phone number. I'm PCMag's managing editor for consumer electronics, overseeing an experienced team ...

Signing up to Facebook's Messenger app is no longer possible without having an account on the main Facebook platform. In 2015, the social network started permitting people to sign up to use the ...

Facebook is opening up its messaging platform to anyone. The social networking giant today announced that users in the U.S., Canada, Peru and Venezuela can now use Facebook Messenger even if they ...

Facebook, to this day, has a massive daily user base and is still regarded as one of the most popular social media services out there. By association, this makes Facebook Messenger — which comes built ...

SAN FRANCISCO — For years Facebook and Messenger were so deeply intertwined, you couldn't have one without the other. Not anymore. On Wednesday, Messenger began letting people without a Facebook ...

Facebook has used the quiet Christmas period to tweak the requirements for new Messenger account sign-ups. It's now mandatory that you also have a Facebook account. A Facebook spokesperson explained, ...