Facebook Messenger

For Slack’s App Builders, The Message Is The Platform

And the conversation is the interface.

The shift is part of a bigger plan.

You can check out anytime you like … but you can never leave.

Messenger keeps getting bigger and more all-encompassing.

Google still wants to be a one-stop shop for everything mobile.

Chatting with text is so 2014.

The social network will be watching—and presumably learning.

Noteworthy screwups, blunders, and gaffes.

The gift that doesn’t keep on giving.

The social network is eliminating the chat function from its mobile app and requiring users to install Messenger.

Vine is the latest social media app to add direct messages, despite evidence users even want it.