For Facebook refuseniks who still want the ability to chat with Facebook users, you used to be able to sign up for Facebook Messenger without a Facebook account. That’s no longer the case… VentureBeat ...

Ian Sherr (he/him/his) grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, so he's always had a connection to the tech world. As an editor at large at CNET, he wrote about Apple, Microsoft, VR, video games and ...

Rolling back a feature it introduced in 2015, Facebook Inc. has quietly removed the ability to sign up for its Messenger chat service without a Facebook account. VentureBeat was first to report the ...

Editor’s note: All instructions on this list of Facebook Messenger tips and tricks were created using a Google Pixel 8a running Android 15. Steps might differ from device to device, especially if ...

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Facebook has quietly removed the ability to sign up for Messenger without a Facebook account, the company confirmed to VentureBeat this afternoon. Previously, new users using the Messenger or ...

What just happened? Messenger is the second-most-popular messaging app in the world, but not every user has a Facebook account. Now, however, that's no longer an option for new signups after the ...

From now on, you cannot just create a Facebook Messenger account with only a phone number. Just this week, Facebook's control of Just recently, Facebook Messenger got stricter as the social networking ...