{"id":16,"date":"2020-10-02T12:55:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T12:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/?p=1321441"},"modified":"2020-10-02T12:55:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T12:55:17","slug":"facebook-merging-messenger-and-instagram-chat-only-benefits-zuckerberg-not-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Facebook merging Messenger and Instagram chat only benefits Zuckerberg \u2014 not you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2020\/10\/image-5-1-796x417.png\" width=\"796\" height=\"417\"><br \/>Facebook Messenger and Instagram\u2019s direct messaging services will be integrated into one system, Facebook has announced. The merge will allow shared messaging across both platforms, as well as video calls and the use of a range of tools drawn from both platforms. It\u2019s currently being rolled out across countries on an opt-in basis, but hasn\u2019t yet reached Australia. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced plans in March last year to integrate Messenger, Instagram Direct and WhatsApp into a unified messaging experience. At the crux of this was the goal to administer end-to-end encryption across the whole messaging \u201cecosystem\u201d. Ostensibly, this was&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/syndication\/2020\/10\/02\/facebook-merging-messenger-and-instagram-chat-only-benefits-zuckerberg-not-you\/?utm_source=social&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=profeed\">This story continues<\/a> at The Next Web<\/p>\n<p>Or just read more coverage about: <a href='https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/company\/facebook\/'>Facebook<\/a>,<a href='https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/company\/instagram\/'>Instagram<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/syndication\/2020\/10\/02\/facebook-merging-messenger-and-instagram-chat-only-benefits-zuckerberg-not-you\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook Messenger and Instagram\u2019s direct messaging services will be integrated into one system, Facebook has announced. The merge will allow shared messaging across both platforms, as well as video calls and the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}