Meta has announced a series of changes to its services to meet the demands of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in Europe. Of the changes announced there are several independence of Facebook service accountsincluding Messenger ones.
Thus, it will be possible once again use Facebook Messenger without a Facebook account, something that was possible a few years ago until it disappeared without a trace. Now, it returns due to demands of the European Union.
Messenger without Facebook
Meta continues to make changes to its services to comply with current laws in Europe. Some of them we already knew, such as subscribing to avoid ads, while others give us a certain feeling of Deja vuas the option for unlink Messenger account from Facebook.
After several years in which Meta is trying to unify all its accounts, they are now forced to offer the tools to do just the opposite. The services of Facebook Messenger, Facebook Marketplace and Facebook Gaming They can be used without being linked to a Facebook account.
- Facebook Messenger: European users will be able to choose between continuing to use Messenger with their Facebook account or creating a new, separate Messenger account.
- Facebook Marketplace: Users can choose between a Marketplace experience that is based on Facebook data or not. In this case, everything will remain the same but communications with sellers and buyers will be by email instead of Facebook Messenger.
- FacebookGaming: Users can choose whether to use Facebook information or not. If not, users will be able to play only “some” single-player games and not the platform’s online games.
This means that it will be possible again use Messenger without having a Facebook accountsomething that could already be done a little over five years ago, with accounts linked to telephone numbers.
Today, on the contrary, if you try to set up a new Messenger account, the application redirects you to the browser so that create a new Facebook accountsince Meta eliminated independent accounts.
They will return, in Europe, although Meta clarifies that people who use Messenger without a Facebook account will have access to the key Messenger functionality such as private messages, chat, calls and video calls, which leaves the door open for some functions to not be available, even though it is not indicated which ones.
It would be expected that Facebook drinking features not available such as avatars, avatar-based stickers, or upcoming generative AI features.
Meta will notify European users of these changes with a notification In the next weeks and it will be then when we know the answers to all these unknowns.
