Facebook is the biggest social network in the world, reaching almost 1 billion users, most of which are active, unlike what reports say about the 3 minutes/month spent on average by Google Plus users. And one growing app/feature inside Facebook is the Chat one, what’s why the company has decided it’s time for a Facebook Messenger for Windows, just released for Windows 7.
Facebook Messenger for Windows is free to download from here. And unfortunately the good news ends here as the app is unable to provide anything else that simplicity, at the expense of features, as most of the common ones are nowhere to be seen.
That’s the biggest problem of Facebook Messenger: it can’t compete with Trilian, Yahoo Messenger (who is compatible with your Facebook list of friends) and not even Gtalk, another simple Instant Messaging (IM) client.
Facebook Messenger for WindowsIf I were to make a list of the thing the Facebook Messenger is able to do I would stop at: chat with friends from your list and tabbed conversations. That’s pretty much it. But because I don’t want to end the article this way let’s see the list of:
no graphic theme to choose fromno grouping options for friendsno invisible mode. In Offline Mode you can’t initiate a conversationSmileys can’t be previewed and few of them are supported anywayno file transfersno message archiveno chat sessions in separate windowscan’t add contacts from other networkscan’t add new Facebook friends. You have to visit facebook.com for thatAnd I think it’s a good idea to stop here with the negative part. As I’ve mentioned before, the best thing is that Facebook Messenger is simple, free and easy to use, but we’re a long way until this becomes a real IM alternative to Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and Trilian. I just hope Facebook has a real plan on improving their only chat messenger app for Windows (and maybe support other operating system as well).
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