Needless to say, Facebook users have been worried about their privacy for a long time now, and for good reason. This led to the #DeleteFacebook movement which trended on Twitter. Then, in early 2018, the Facebook-Cambridge Analytical data scandal happened which exposed the fact that millions of Facebook users’ personal data was being harvested without their consent by Cambridge Analytica.

Why? Because the Facebook Messenger app asked for access to a lot more permissions than the average app and, let’s be honest, the permissions are a little frightening when you start looking into them (more on that below). This started causing Facebook users to be leary. To start off the whole fiasco in 2014, users were forced to download the separate Facebook Messenger App if they wanted to use messaging through the Facebook app itself for mobile. Learn moreĬhances are that if you use Facebook today (and those chances are high because Facebook just passed over 2.6 billion monthly active users), you have heard all the hype about the Facebook Messenger App and concerns over Facebook Messenger privacy. If you purchase through a link on our site, we may earn a commission.

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