Facebook made it possible to use Messenger without an account back in 2015. For a while, all you needed was a phone number, but things have changed since then. Facebook Messenger isn’t officially ...

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 ...

Welp, the days of being able to sign up for Facebook's Messenger service without also being a member of the social network are apparently over. If you have friends and family members who have been ...

You'll no longer be able to sign up for Messenger if you don't have a Facebook account. Back in 2015, the social network started allowing potential users to sign up for its messaging app using only ...

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 ...

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 ...

These days, a lot of people prefer messaging over receiving phone calls as a form of communication. It's arguably the easier and less intrusive of the two methods and provides the recipient of the ...

Facebook is opening up its messaging platform to anyone. The social networking giant today announced that users in the U.S., Canada, Peru and Venezuela can now use Facebook Messenger even if they ...

Did you know that you can still use Messenger with the new feature of temporarily deactivating your Facebook account while keeping your Messenger account? Read on to get the detailed instructions on ...

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 their ...

Those in the U.S., Canada, Peru, and Venezuela will soon be able to sign up for Messenger with just a phone number. I'm PCMag's managing editor for consumer electronics, overseeing an experienced team ...