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Some countries insist on using Messenger and nothing else, until that changes I can't leave.
Can't Messanger be used without Facebook? Mine asked me if in wanted to do that before I nuked it.
My wife tried to delete her fb account again (Shes done it a dozen times). Every other time she was able to keep access to messenger, this time it said no, she would lose access to that too. I think this is their push for people to use whatsapp instead.
Countries? Or groups of people?
Whole countries, where phone number based services like WhatsApp were not available for the longest time, when they became available it was too late and no one switched over