Facebook announced that it’s ready to merge Messenger chat with Instagram, allowing people to communicate seamlessly across platforms. The move is part of Facebook’s bigger plan to unify Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
Mark Zuckerberg surprised the world in early 2019 when he laid out his plan to unify Facebook’s instant messaging apps and enable cross-platform functionality. This would make it possible for someone to keep in touch with friends and family without worrying about the app they need to text and call. WhatsApp users would talk to Instagram users and Facebook Messenger users without needing accounts on the other platforms. At the time, Facebook also confirmed that the underlying chat engine that will power this cross-platform functionality would offer end-to-end encryption. As it is right now, WhatsApp remains the only end-to-end encrypted chat app that Facebook owns. Facebook on Tuesday announced the first step towards merging the three chat apps by allowing Facebook Messenger and Instagram users to talk to each other.
