Facebook to merge Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.


"Facebook merging Whats app, Instagram, Facebook Messenger"
Facebook to merge Whats app, Instagram, Facebook Messenger

        World’s most renowned social media site Facebook is going to merge its Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook messenger according to a report by New York Times. As per the report, Facebook says that it will be a long process and it has already started working on it.
       The popular photo sharing app, Instagram has been bought by Facebook in 2011 for $1billion. While Facebook also bought instant messaging app, Whatsapp for $19 billion in 2014. Facebook also owns its native messaging service, Facebook Messenger which has lot of common features of the other messaging apps, the merger of these three might result in "best messaging experience" for the billions of users across the globe who use the Facebook owned apps.

       After the merger of the three, a WhatsApp user can text an Instagram user without switching the apps and will become interoperatable and this will take place by rewriting a basic software, New York Times reported.

       The rewrite of the basic software will involve adding End-to-End encryption to all three apps. Whatsapp has already added end-to -end encryption to its messaging service which prevents anyone, including Facebook to read its messages. The end-to-end encryption for the Facebook Messenger limited which has to be enabled separately, the security feature which is off by default. While the Instagram doesn't have this feature at all.

"Facebook to merge Whats app, Instagram, Facebook Messenger"


      Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg originally said that both Instagram and Whatsapp will work autonomously from the Social Network. Thus, the decision of merger is a backtrack on that point of view.

      The main concerns with this merger will be in the case of privacy. One of these is that WhatsApp just requires user’s phone number for registration. While, Facebook messenger requires people's real identities. If the whats app messenger starts requiring that too, a whole lot of its users will leave it and will opt for its competitors such as Telegram.

      Also the WhatsApp founders left the company over their objections over tightened 
centralized control. Even the founders of the Instagram left for the same reason.

      No much details are announced about the merger, but we will be able see the changes by 2020 but, that too is not a confirmed thing.
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  1. Jhon Clark4 August 2020 at 14:28

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