If you're a big mobile Facebook useras in, you use m.facebook.com for your browsing, not one of Facebook's apps, you're soon going to have a much quieter experience.

Facebook is planning to drop the messaging functionality from its mobile site. According to a report from TechCrunch, some Facebook users are already starting to receive a notification when they use the messages portion of the mobile Facebook site that says: "Your conversations are moving to Messenger. Soon you'll only be able to view your messages from Messenger."

This move shouldn't come as much of a surprise for those who use Facebook's mobile site, which has always had various callouts and notifications suggesting that a person should also grab Messenger. As Android Police notes, Facebook has been a bit harder about its sell lately, going so far as to send people to their devices' App Stores to grab Messenger when they click on the messages link on the mobile site. An annoyance, sure, but an ultimately effective way to get someone to realize that the Messenger app exists and that they should probably grab it sooner than later.

Of course, Facebook's move will certainly affect those who can't install the Facebook app for a variety of legitimate reasons, including they don't want to and/or their devices don't have a Facebook app for them to use. Perhaps they're on a work phone and they're prohibited from installing apps in some capacity. Perhaps they worry that the Facebook app is hogging up their battery life or, worse, they have an older phone that simply can't run it very well.

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We can't help but think that the world of people sending Facebook messages on its mobile website is probably fairly small in comparison to the number of people using Facebook's app. Why force website users to switch? Bug them with reasons why they should switch, sure, but if there are legitimate reasons why someone can't use the app, it's only fair (and polite) to at least toss them some kind of boneeven if the web-based Messenger is less of an experience compared to the app-based one.

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