Messenger – Text and Video Chat for Free

Messenger is an app made by Facebook developers to chat with your friends. You may also use it for video calls, files and music exchange, voice messages. If you're a member of Facebook, Messenger will connect your contacts and allow you to communicate with friends with one click.

Messenger Benefits

This app includes many features for online communication and even for business meetings creation. You can send as many messages as you want – it's all free. Calls and video calls are also available. If you don't have the time or opportunity to write, you can send a voice or video message.

Messenger also allows you to send photos and videos, exchange files with no limits. You may open or download them any time you want. If you need someone to know where you are, send them your current location.

Group chats are popular nowadays because it's convenient to send information you want to discuss with many people in one conversation. You may decide where to go on weekends just using the vote option. Besides, you can know who has already read your message and who hasn't.

Interface and design

This app has a lot of features, but it is simple in usage. The main page has the list of all chats. If you want to find a conversation you had one year ago, it's not a problem – there is a search option. Or if you want to start a new chat, you can find a list of friends and choose the person you need.

Design is nice and comfortable – you can choose between day and night mode. Your eyes won't tire so much if you use dark mode in the evening. Besides, you can set a personal sticker for every conversation. You will find it in the right corner and send it in one click.

Connection to Facebook: Privacy and Safety

Messenger collects some information from your chats like your location or your activity with business and apps. Then you will more probably see some ads on Facebook according to this info. The app doesn't spread your messages or other chat info.

If you see uncertain activity in Messenger, you can send a report or block users that spam. You may also set additional security options. However, many users say that Messenger is not the safest app for communication. I think it used to be like that, but now it has many new features that secure your information.

Conclusion

Many people use Messenger even if they don't have a Facebook account. I think it's because this app has a convenient design with many interesting options. You can now buy products using Messenger and send money with no additional payments. I'm sure that new features will appear in the future. If you chat with friends a lot, Messenger will be a suitable choice for this.