Third-party apps will improve our experience on Messenger

Mar 20, 2015 07:55 GMT  ·  By

The fact that Facebook works with third-party partners comes as no surprise to anyone as the company released a statement a few years back, announcing that they would be working with marketers to provide its users with easy access to relevant ads.

Although the decision was made to help Facebook users make the best of the offers on the market by having access to a wide range of products, some were displeased with the whole situation and accused Facebook of being greedy to the point of allowing them to be harassed by these advertisements.

Mashable has announced that the giant tech company now plans to have third-party apps work with Facebook Messenger. Facebook intends to add several other features to the application, which will allow users to perform more actions rather than just conversing with their friends online.

Facebook representatives have not given many details about how Messenger is going to change, but it seems that more information regarding the issue will be revealed at Facebook’s F8 conference, which will take place in less than a week.

What users think about the upcoming updates

Many other countries are already using this type of multi-featured applications which offer more than just the possibility to talk to friends or send and receive photos and videos, namely Kakao Talk or Line in Korea and even Wechat.

So, given that they are aware that this kind of changes could improve their online experience, users seem to have displayed a rather positive reaction towards the upcoming updates. People are actually looking forward to see in what way their experience on Messenger will change.

If we were to look at the already existing applications available in South-East Asian countries, we could expect, for instance, a More tab with access to more emoji which can be bought online, like the Line Messenger.

Another theory coming from Techcrunch is that Facebook might allow users to follow or visit official accounts. But until the release of the features takes place, we can only hope that the changes will indeed be for the better.