Facebook Messenger continues to gain users, and continues to grow as a messaging application despite the fact that WhatsApp continues to dominate especially in countries like Spain. However, Messenger has already exceeded the figure of one billion users, thus following in the wake of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp itself. They are very curious figures, the four applications are from the same group. But there seems to be no intention of closing any.
A social network, a social network of photos, a messaging app, and another messaging app, it seems incredible that these are the four apps of the same group that have the achievement of having managed to exceed one billion users worldwide . Facebook Messenger has been the last to achieve this, so it is in the wake of WhatsApp now, and it seems to rule out any possibility that the app will be closed with the idea that WhatsApp will remain as the only messaging app. Of course, in reality, this is partly the fault of Facebook. While Messenger was only the platform to talk through Facebook, the social network decided to separate it on mobile. That is, if you wanted to talk on Facebook Messenger, you would have to download the precise app for this, and it was not worth having the official Facebook app. In this way, it is achieved that users, by a simple conversation or by a message they have received at some point, have to download Facebook Messenger even if they are not going to use it, not even long, like WhatsApp.
That in Spain, because the same is not the case in the United States, where the use of Facebook Messenger is much more widespread, beyond the fact that there have been unlimited SMS for a longer time, and therefore, it is customary to also use them to communicate , without having to resort to these applications.
Be that as it may, it does not seem clear what the future is for either WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger, Facebook probably thinks about keeping both, and giving each one a different orientation at all times. But right now, they are almost rivals, with very high user levels, and they dominate the world of messaging.
