Facebook Messenger: the future gaming platform?

The number of social networks could use its position to try to unite all the communities of players around the world, using its Messenger messaging as a common node. He would make Messenger a kind of game platform.

Messenger could mutate into gaming platform

Gradually we begin to understand what led Facebook to dissociate its instant messaging application, the rest of the social network. The Messenger application is now gradually being equipped with new features such as video calls, photos, videos, online payments, etc. the next step for the social network is a priori, transform IM Messenger, in a video game platform.

It was during the F8 conference, some sails fell on the future of Messenger, which promises to become a major player in the future. Facebook has indeed unveiled several APIs, offering developers the ability to build applications that are not dedicated, as the Messenger. Messaging should even have its own App Store, to surround it with a true ecosystem of applications and stuff.

Facebook promises games on Messenger in the near future

Customers will be delighted to learn that in the future, Messenger will do much more than he makes today. Another important point, which the newspaper The Information is echoed, Facebook is in negotiations with numerous video game publishers, to integrate them in Messenger, to accustom users to focus its messaging, to create communities players on the social network.

Mark Zuckerberg and hope federate communities on the network, keep users 'hyper connected' and very active in the heart of its social network and finally, encourage purchases "in app" to improve monetizing Facebook.