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Facebook Messenger Launches Standalone Video and Text Chat App for macOS and Windows

Thursday April 2, 2020 8:34 AM PDT by Mitchel Broussard

Facebook today launched a standalone Messenger app for macOS and Windows platforms, allowing users to video and text chat with friends and family from their desktop computer. Along with all of the expected features, Messenger on macOS supports Dark Mode.

The Messenger app connects directly to your Facebook account, so you can chat with existing friends without needing an email or phone number. These chats will sync across the mobile and desktop versions of Messenger as well.

Facebook said that it has noticed "more than a 100% increase" in people using web browsers for audio and video calling on Facebook Messenger, leading to the launch of the new app. For those interested, it's available on the Mac App Store and Microsoft Store from today.

Tags: Facebook, Facebook Messenger

Top Rated Comments

coords

76 months ago

Something from Facebook, the privacy king... no thank you!!

Score: 25 Votes (Like | Disagree)

Rocko99991

76 months ago

Anything put out by FB should be a hard pass by everyone.

Score: 14 Votes (Like | Disagree)

MisterSavage

76 months ago

Mark this as "hell no" from me. Other video apps are working just fine for me.

Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)

AZREOSpecialist

76 months ago

Why would anyone want to use Facebook anything? People are very strange.

Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)

dogslobber

76 months ago

Haha. Install a FB app on my Mac? Surely April 1st was yesterday.

Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)

Websnapx2

76 months ago

Hard pass, lol

Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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