Facebook / Messenger review
The “golden age” of Facebook messenger came in 2014, when Facebook removed the option to send text messages from its mobile social networking app. That’s when users started installing the messenger en masse.
Of course, Facebook messenger is seriously inferior in a number of very important indicators to such “giants” in this area as Telegram, Viber, WhatsApp and a number of others. Nevertheless, there is no shortage of users. Indeed, it is not without its advantages.
The registration process on Facebook messenger is straightforward and user-friendly. You can sign up using your phone number as well as your Facebook account.
Facebook messenger has a standard features: text messaging, a possibility to create and communicate in groups, voice and video calls.
The Facebook messenger contact list is the usual list of users with their social network avatars.
As far as voice and video calls are concerned, the call quality for voice calls is quite decent. Of course the person you are calling must have the same app installed on their mobile device and both people must be online during the call.
However, Facebook messenger did not go well with video calls. To say that the quality of the picture leaves much to be desired is to say nothing. The developers released a lot of updates during the time the application was in existence but did nothing to significantly improve this option. And it has to be admitted that in comparison, even the much-criticized Viber gives Facebook messenger a head start, as they say, on this aspect.
As mentioned above, Facebook messenger has the ability to create groups of communication between friends, or for corporate work-related communication between employees in one or more companies.
Facebook messenger also synchronises its contact list with a user’s social network friend list. And it indicates which of the friends is using the application and which can communicate using messenger only with the help of PC and browser version of Facebook.
But for those who like to vary their communication with all sorts of emoticons, Facebook messenger is a treasure trove. For playful users, the developers did their best to provide the application with a large number of funny pictures that can brighten up the dialogue if you wish.
As for the settings of the messenger in terms of working with media files, the user can set their own schedule of receiving images, audio and video files. This is very convenient, for example, in conditions of limited Internet traffic: it is possible to set video receipt only if WiFi is available. It is also possible to send an audio message instead of a text message, if desired and if time is limited. However, the developers have also “underwhelmed” Facebook messenger with this function, as it is much more conveniently implemented in a number of other similar apps.
