Who’s using Facebook Messenger? Facebook’s stats department will tell you that every month, more than 800 million people use it and 9.5 billion photos are sent through it. But on the rare occasions I use Messenger, I chat briefly with old college friends or random people I know through work. They don’t know my phone number to send me a text, so they reach me through Facebook.
I wondered if my 35-year-old self was [gulp] getting old. So I asked a 23-year-old colleague if she uses Messenger. "Every day and with everyone I know. I rarely text," she says. She went on to tell me that the people she texts tend to be strangers, like a person she met once or twice for work. "I just don’t want to have too many connections on Facebook with people...
via The Verge
