Not a fan of the Messenger app? Tough! Facebook appears to be making it mandatory

At a glance, it appears to be the kind of message that you can just ignore. The friendly reminder says “Your conversations are moving to Messenger,” with an explanation that soon the app will be required if you want to keep chatting with your friends. Many users are discovering that by “soon,” Facebook means, “within the next few seconds,” because although dismissing the alert brings you back to your list of conversations, tapping any one of them will take you to Messenger in the Google Play Store. It’s possible to hop back with the back button, dismiss the dialogue again, and eventually wriggle your way back into your conversations on the mobile browser, but the signal is clear: Facebook wants you on the app and off the browser.

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