

I’m sure most of us are quite informed on how many privacy risks are associated with this “mandatory download.” I have to let Facebook have access to my microphone and camera just to send messages like I was already doing without risking my privacy? Thanks for making billions of Facebook users have to go out of their way to download this stupid app just to send messages. I could be messaging someone on Facebook with the secrets to ColdFusion, extraterrestrial life, the origin of God, and who killed JFK, and it still wouldn’t deserve its own app.

Even if I were perfectly articulate, completely deep and thought and could muster words that your strongest vocabulary couldn’t even fathom. There is nothing that I could add to my messages that would make it so special that it deserves its own app. Here are a few choice samples from some iOS reviewers: The Google Play store works a bit differently, as Mashable’s Karissa Bell points out, but even recent reviews of the Messenger app are mostly negative. Nearly 94% of those who rated the app gave it just one star. 1 spot in the iOS App Store - but it also has an overwhelming number of one-star ratings. In just a few days since the big split, Facebook Messenger has soared to the No.
