Facebook to add voice, video calling feature back to its main app
CEO Mark Zuckerberg has stated that merging the company's messaging services benefits consumers by reaching more people and minimising the need to download or switch between separate applications.
FollowFacebook Inc. is adding voice and video calling to its core social networking service, the latest move to improve its communications services after separating Messenger as a separate programme in 2014. Beginning August 24, certain users, including those in the United States, will make voice or video calls through the Facebook app. According to Connor Hayes, Messenger's director of product management, the new feature is merely a test, but it is designed to remove the need to navigate between Facebook's main app and its Messenger service.
Last autumn, Facebook began testing a restricted version of Messenger's inbox in the primary Facebook app. Messenger was initially included within Facebook's app. Still, the corporation split it off seven years ago, forcing users to download separate software to send private messages from a mobile phone. The test on Monday is the latest in a slow but steady internal effort to link all of Facebook's applications and services. According to rumours, Facebook is starting to think of Messenger as a service rather than a single app. This indicates that consumers will combine the technology with other activities, such as using Messenger to video chat while watching movies or playing games on Facebook.
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Other Facebook services, such as Instagram, Oculus, and Portal devices, support voice and video calls using Messenger technology.
Last September, Facebook enabled communications between its Instagram app and Messenger, and there are plans to expand the functionality to its WhatsApp messaging service.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg has stated that merging the company's messaging services benefits consumers by reaching more people and minimising the need to download or switch between separate applications.
Critics claim that Facebook is interweaving its services, so that it will be hard to dismantle the business. Last week, federal officials launched an antitrust action against Facebook in an attempt to force the company to split off its Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions.
