article_snippet: Facebook faced a backlash last year for forcing users to download a separate Messenger app for mobile, and Facebook looks like the web version is heading in the same direction.
article_snippet: Facebook has launched Messenger.com - a standalone site that lets users chat to Facebook friends privately on a browser in the same way Facebook friends can on the Messenger app.
article_snippet: Facebook has launched Messenger.com
article_snippet: a standalone site that lets people chat to people Facebook contacts, start group conversations and send photos in the same way people can on the Messenger app.
article_snippet: Facebook didn't reveal Facebook future plans for the service, but told MailOnline: 'Facebook're launching Messenger for web browsers - a standalone web chat product accessible via Messenger.com. '
article_snippet: To use Messenger.com, users log in with Facebook credentials and Messenger.com - a standalone site that lets users chat to Facebook friends privately on a browser in the same way they can on the Messenger app will automatically import Facebook credentials and the site contacts and current chats.
article_snippet: Jack Kent, principal mobile analyst at IHS Technology told MailOnline that by splitting Facebook services, Jack Kent, principal mobile analyst at IHS Technology reduces the  different ways in which the site has to handle messages in the site standard app and site.
article_snippet: At the site F8 conference in San Francisco last month, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg was turning Messenger into a platform for 'e-commerce, video and more'.
article_snippet: Facebook are trying to make Messenger a full-featured and rich media platform,' Gartner analyst Brian Blau said at its F8 conference in San Francisco last month. '
article_snippet: Users log in with Users Facebook credentials and the site  automatically imports Users contacts and current chats. 
article_snippet: Messenger.com is the latest addition to the much-maligned service.
article_snippet: At Messenger.com F8 conference in San Francisco last month, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg (pictured) announced Facebook was turning Messenger application into a platform for 'e-commerce, video and more' in a bid to shake up online communication . '
article_snippet: Voice calling has been ramping up, and by separating [Messenger], Facebook can make this feature available.
article_snippet: Facebook launched Messenger back in 2011 but split the app from Facebook at the start of last year and forced people to download both apps if people wanted to use the two services.
highlights_snippet: Messenger.com is a standalone site that lets you chat to Facebook friends .
  