Facebook has quietly removed the ability to sign up for Messenger without a Facebook account, the company confirmed to VentureBeat this afternoon. Previously, new users using the Messenger or ...

You'll no longer be able to sign up for Messenger if you don't have a Facebook account. Back in 2015, the social network started allowing potential users to sign up for its messaging app using only ...

Welp, the days of being able to sign up for Facebook's Messenger service without also being a member of the social network are apparently over. If you have friends and family members who have been ...

Facebook, to this day, has a massive daily user base and is still regarded as one of the most popular social media services out there. By association, this makes Facebook Messenger — which comes built ...

These instructions apply to the Messenger app on your mobile device. Now, even if you open Messenger to read or send messages, it won't show that you're online. This is a great way to discourage your ...

Facebook has used the quiet Christmas period to tweak the requirements for new Messenger account sign-ups. It's now mandatory that you also have a Facebook account. As VentureBeat reports, Facebook ...

Facebook wants even the people who hate Facebook to use Messenger, so it’s opening the option to sign up for its chat app without an account on its social network. Users can sign up with just a first ...

SAN FRANCISCO — For years Facebook and Messenger were so deeply intertwined, you couldn't have one without the other. Not anymore. On Wednesday, Messenger began letting people without a Facebook ...

Though Facebook has been testing multiple account support for Messenger for awhile now, it's finally making the feature official starting today. As of the most recent update, Messenger users on ...

Facebook Messenger offers more features than chatting, and some use it even if they don't bother with their Facebook account. For those who fall into the latter group, there's good news: the recent ...

Microsoft on Tuesday started mass emailing its 100 million+ Messenger users to let them know that the service is officially being retired on March 15, 2013. On that date, all users will be migrated to ...