Facebook is currently consolidating the three chat services, which are Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram. These applications will not be integrated, they will continue to function as stand-alone applications, but Facebook wants its users to send messages to each other on different platforms.
To do this, "thousands of Facebook employees" need to adjust these applications to each other, according to a New York Times report yesterday. These staff will need to change the way they work.
Mark Zuckerberg goal is to use end-to-end encryption in all three applications once the merger will be completed in late 2019 or early next year. Currently, WhatsApp supports close encryption in all conversations, while users in Facebook Messenger can choose to have encrypted conversations.
In an official statement, Facebook says it wants ''to build the best messaging experiences we can, and people want messaging to be fast, simple, reliable and private''.It added: ''We’re working on making more of our messaging products
end to end encrypted and considering ways to make it easier to reach
friends and family across networks''.
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