How Facebook wants to make you addicted to Messenger

Facebook Messenger addictionFacebook Messenger is the messaging platform created by the company Facebook for its social network, it being separated from the website Facebook through a dedicated application for mobile terminals, but also an own website that can be accessed by anyone at any time.

More than that, Messenger it can be used not only with a Facebook account but also only with a mobile phone number, so that anyone can use the social network platform, even if they do not have a Facebook account previously created to use Facebook.com.

According to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, only 1% of the potential Messenger it has been exploited until now by the American company, which has very big plans regarding the future development of the system, the idea being to make users dependent on it in everyday life.

More precisely, Facebook wants Messenger to become a platform that will be the basis for the creation of companies that offer special services through it, those in the Facebook management being convinced that their plans are very close to being fulfilled.

The idea is to turn Messenger into an app for everything, it will be used by companies to get in touch with customers, to promote various special offers for products, to offer them support when they need it and much more.

Separate from the interaction of companies with customers through Messenger, the platform would allow us to buy plane tickets, make restaurant reservations, buy clothes, food or anything else online, or use it as a personal assistant for our daily life with day.

Facebook has ambitious plans for Messenger, and it competes directly with Siri and Google Now, services that have already made enough users addicted to them, but it remains to be seen whether Facebook will have the power to move people from one service to another. another.