{"id":44830,"date":"2012-12-04T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T05:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=44830"},"modified":"2012-12-04T09:12:16","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T05:12:16","slug":"facebook-messenger-android","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/facebook-messenger-android","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Messenger for Mobile No Longer Requires a Facebook Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 11px 22px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom.fb.com\/ImageLibrary\/DisplayMedia.ashx?MediaDetailsID=4269&amp;SizeId=3\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"239\" \/>Facebook today announced that its Messenger app no longer requirees a Facebook account to be used. The app, which until now has been relatively redundant to the main Facebook app, now takes on a new meaning: it becomes a competitor to apps like WhatsApp and Kik that bypass SMS through data usage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Starting today, you can create a Messenger account with just your name and phone number, and start messaging your mobile contacts,&#8221; says the social network. &#8220;Just install the app and tap Get Started to reach your contacts faster, start group conversations, share photos and more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>Messenger is only being updated in this regard on the Android platform. If it comes to BlackBerry at any point, it will compete directly with RIM&#8217;s BBM; and if it launches on iOS, it will compete with Apple&#8217;s iMessage. We&#8217;re guessing Facebook launched on Android first because it doesn&#8217;t yet have an &#8220;official&#8221; SMS bypasser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook today announced that its Messenger app no longer requirees a Facebook account to be used. The app, which until now has been relatively redundant to the main Facebook app, now takes on a new meaning: it becomes a competitor to apps like WhatsApp and Kik that bypass SMS through data usage. &#8220;Starting today, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55555,"featured_media":44832,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-44830","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/44830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/55555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/44830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44830"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=44830"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=44830"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=44830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}