PC World - Facebook is hoping to gain a stronger foothold in the competitive mobile messaging space with an updated version of its Messenger app, which now lets people message each other even if they aren't Facebook friends.On Wednesday the company announced an update to its standalone Messenger app, which lets users send text messages to each other, but without the usual other content on Facebook like the news feed and timeline profiles.The updated app was available previously in a testing mode to a small number of users on Android-based devices, but now is available more widely to people on both Android and iOS.Before the update, the app let users send messages just to their Facebook friends. Now it lets people send messages to anyone with a Facebook account -- even if they're not friends -- as long as the sender knows the person's phone number. The message appears in the recipient's Messenger app or in the person's Facebook messages folder.To read this article in ful
↧