I’ve never used Facebook Messenger. I do realize that FB Messenger not being properly encrypted does have advantages in terms of managing the account with multiple agents however. That might be a lot harder to replicate with Signal.
In a lot of countries whatsapp is the defacto IM, but I live in a country where facebook messenger and viber became the standard for some reason.
I guess they measured how much citizen they can reach on each platform and selected messenger based on that data.
This is not for MEPs to message each other, not the recommendation by the Comission, this site is for ordinary citizens to get information. I think the biggest problem is why only facebook messenger?I would expect other similar platforms there, like whatsapp, viber, telegram or imessage.
@federalreverse@Admax
As a matter of fact, Meta is implementing end-to-end encryption on Facebook Messenger - much to my displeasure because I couldn’t get it working in any of my browsers and thus couldn’t read my messages since Christmas. Never mind, Facebook doesn’t let me sign into my Facebook account anymore anways and keeps sending me in circles to solve the problem.
Facebook and Google hassling me trying to log in after moving to a new home despite a good long password, and thus being on a different network in a different city helped me rethink my dependence on both of those services. Google presented me with a questionnaire that was just weird, with question like “what month of what year did you open your account?” (how would I know, the account had existed since 2005?) and then following up with a question what city I was in when I opened the account (again, how would I know?). With Facebook, I noticed there was absolutely no way to log in from another country without already having installed the app, it didn’t even help to add my phone number to the account.
@federalreverse
Google never pestered me although occasionally, I have to confirm my e-mail address for account recovery.
My problems with Facebook started when I changed my Internet provider and grew when I changed my e-mail address. No longer being able to sign in to my facebook account is no big loss - only used it to keep in touch with a handful of friends abroad, anyways. The trouble is that of some I don’t have up-to-date e-mail addresses.
I’ve never used Facebook Messenger. I do realize that FB Messenger not being properly encrypted does have advantages in terms of managing the account with multiple agents however. That might be a lot harder to replicate with Signal.
In a lot of countries whatsapp is the defacto IM, but I live in a country where facebook messenger and viber became the standard for some reason. I guess they measured how much citizen they can reach on each platform and selected messenger based on that data.
This is not for MEPs to message each other, not the recommendation by the Comission, this site is for ordinary citizens to get information. I think the biggest problem is why only facebook messenger?I would expect other similar platforms there, like whatsapp, viber, telegram or imessage.
@federalreverse @Admax
As a matter of fact, Meta is implementing end-to-end encryption on Facebook Messenger - much to my displeasure because I couldn’t get it working in any of my browsers and thus couldn’t read my messages since Christmas. Never mind, Facebook doesn’t let me sign into my Facebook account anymore anways and keeps sending me in circles to solve the problem.
Facebook and Google hassling me trying to log in after moving to a new home despite a good long password, and thus being on a different network in a different city helped me rethink my dependence on both of those services. Google presented me with a questionnaire that was just weird, with question like “what month of what year did you open your account?” (how would I know, the account had existed since 2005?) and then following up with a question what city I was in when I opened the account (again, how would I know?). With Facebook, I noticed there was absolutely no way to log in from another country without already having installed the app, it didn’t even help to add my phone number to the account.
@federalreverse
Google never pestered me although occasionally, I have to confirm my e-mail address for account recovery.
My problems with Facebook started when I changed my Internet provider and grew when I changed my e-mail address. No longer being able to sign in to my facebook account is no big loss - only used it to keep in touch with a handful of friends abroad, anyways. The trouble is that of some I don’t have up-to-date e-mail addresses.