Most of the comments here say they only use the FB app for messaging, and they won't install another app. Why is this Messenger app the 'another' one, when the main app clearly doesn't fit your usual use case? I've kept the main app off my phone for well over a year now, and only looked back when Paper came out. Try just having the Messenger app on your phone, no news feed, no ads, no crap. Just messaging, which works incredibly well on a phone that you're already using for lots of messaging.
My Facebook feed is wholly useless; the few things that might have been of interest there I've already seen on Twitter.
The Facebook Messenger app I've been using pretty consistently recently due to meeting some people and adding them on Facebook, and it's quite good, especially cross-platform (iOS/web).
The fb app is intrusive (no, I don't want fb notifications on my phone), offers a worse experience than the mobile web version and, well, it's another app
Messenger on the other hand is something much more useful (and lighter)
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Most of the comments here say they only use the FB app for messaging, and they won't install another app. Why is this Messenger app the 'another' one, when the main app clearly doesn't fit your usual use case? I've kept the main app off my phone for well over a year now, and only looked back when Paper came out. Try just having the Messenger app on your phone, no news feed, no ads, no crap. Just messaging, which works incredibly well on a phone that you're already using for lots of messaging.
I don't know about the other folks ... but I don't want to get sucked into the Feed. I'm with you on this.
My Facebook feed is wholly useless; the few things that might have been of interest there I've already seen on Twitter.
The Facebook Messenger app I've been using pretty consistently recently due to meeting some people and adding them on Facebook, and it's quite good, especially cross-platform (iOS/web).
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The fb app is intrusive (no, I don't want fb notifications on my phone), offers a worse experience than the mobile web version and, well, it's another app
Messenger on the other hand is something much more useful (and lighter)