The Goddess Professor Speaks

Problem : I don't want to add the Facebook Messenger app to my mobile device.  I only occasionally use Facebook Messenger on my mobile device. Even before all of the articles and complaints about the now required Facebook Messenger app, I'd already decided that I was NOT going to add it to my phone.  I still haven't installed the latest update of the Facebook app, so I certainly wasn't going to add another, separate Facebook Messenger app to my phone. I use Facebook just as much as the next person, but I'm mostly a computer Facebook user.  I check the Facebook app on my phone occasionally, and I certainly don't use the messenger often enough on my phone that I need to add another app.  It's not worth it. I've ignored the "install the Messenger app" suggestions  for months, but the other day I was banned from accessing a message on my phone.  It ticked me off ( like many others ), but then I wondered: "if I open Facebook on the phon...