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 ...

This doesn’t mean using Facebook Messenger without a Facebook account is impossible right now, though. It just requires a workaround, and you’ll have to sign up for it at least temporarily.

Facebook Messenger no longer requires a Facebook account. Starting today, new Messenger users in the US, Canada, Venezuela and Peru can sign up using a full name and phone number. Messenger can ...

In June 2015, Facebook opened the option for people to sign up for Messenger accounts without linking a Facebook profile, starting in certain countries that included the United States. The process ...

Today Facebook announced its first-ever product open to people without a Facebook account. Starting now, the Messenger for Android app, and later its iOS counterpart, will allow signups from non ...

Facebook wants even the people who hate Facebook to use Messenger, so it’s opening the option to sign up for its chat app without an account on its social network. Users can sign up with just a ...

Washington, July 17: Facebook has announced that its Messenger is now globally available for users who want to sign up without a Facebook Account. According to thenextweb.com, David Marcus ...

However, you'll need to create a Facebook account to gain initial access to it. Back in the good old days, people could sign up for a Messenger-only account using a phone number as their login.

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 ...

Facebook says that it won’t allow you to start using Messenger without a Facebook account anymore. From 2015, Facebook allowed people to sign up for Messenger using their phone number along with ...

It once was possible to use Facebook Messenger without having a Facebook account at all. All you needed was a phone number to sign up. In December of 2019, Facebook quietly phased out that option.