And it’s pushing adoption hard-the company recently removed the ability for people to message friends via Facebook’s mobile site. Messenger has become a core part of Facebook in the last four years, turning into much more than just a chat client so it makes sense the company would try again with a more robust and standalone app to collect and send people’s messages from different places. The company rolled out support for SMS back in 2012, but pulled it, presumably because of the lack of interest. It’s Facebook’s second attempt at getting Android users to use Messenger as their SMS inbox. This means you can have one inbox for both Facebook and text messages, removing the need to bop between apps to talk with Facebook friends and people who prefer to text. Facebook announced the new feature on Tuesday. In the app, Facebook messages will be blue, and SMS conversations will be purple. Those who activate the app as their default texting client can start sending and receiving text messages directly in Messenger. It’s an opt-in feature and only works on Android.
Facebook wants everyone to make Messenger their chat app of choice, and to further ingrain people into its messaging ecosystem, the company launched SMS on Messenger.
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