Facebook Messenger wants to take care of your old text messages too
Little by little Facebook is positioning itself as the queen of communicationAnd it is that it no longer only manages your personal relationships and the content you publish around your life, but also knows Who are you writing to and what about Now go a step further by wanting to take care of SMS or old text messages Of course, it seems that with the sole intention of making the user's life more comfortable
Thus, Facebook Messenger announces the possibility of integrating SMSin your messaging service. In other words, being able to use Messenger for regular chats, calls, and video calls with friends from Facebook, but also to send or receive classic text messages without having to use the application Terminal default. This can only be done on Android due to security limitations of iOS, and which seems only a matter of management improvement
Of course, for this the user has to activate this feature It would only be necessary to click on the tab with the icon of a person, look for the section SMS and activate it Or, if you prefer, activate Messenger as the default application for receiving and managing SMS messages.In this second case, it is necessary to go to the Settings of the terminal and find said option among the default applications
From now on incoming messages appear as new chats sorted on the Facebook screen Messenger To avoid confusion, SMS are colored purple, while regular chats continue in blue This and the possibility of making calls and video calls are the only tangible differences between the two messages in Messenger And it is that Facebook has worked to offer enriched content in the SMS, or what is the same, show emoticons, GIF animations, stickers, photos and videos, and not just text like it happened before.
Now, we must not fail to take into account that the SMS continue to be messages managed by the mobile operators, so they do not circulate over the Internet and may have an associated cost that raises the telephone bill of the user. But if it is privacy that worries the user, Facebook has been in charge of clarifying that SMS continue to be sent over the mobile network and not over the Internet, so They don't go through their servers or are stored anywhere. Or at least that's what they say next to the announcement of the arrival of this feature.
The funny thing is that Facebook Messenger already had the integration of SMS in its chats back then 2012However, the feature disappeared until now. All this with the excuse of facilitating communication through the same application. But then what happens with WhatsApp?
Anyway, this new feature of Facebook Messenger is now available for Android terminals Just download the latest version of the app via Google Play Store It's completely free
