Okay, this is starting to piss me off just a little bit. People who don't know what they're talking about or who went on SNOPES.com and read their take on it and every other hype on the messenger and have decided to make a "STAND" about how it's invading your privacy.
1. Facebook messenger can make calls (This may cost you money) the app has a button so that you can call the person you are messaging IF they list their number on facebook. If you are chatting with a person in INdia that you don't know very well and you have your number listed on FB then yeah, they can call you. Here's a slight news flash. For those of you that have facebook on your smart phones and linked to your smartphones, EVERY SINGLE CONTACT ON YOUR FACEBOOK IS IN YOUR PHONES CONTACTS. I have gamer friends in Sri Lanka that I have never met or talked to other than "Can you send meXXX for the game" but because they listed their phone number and email on THEIR facebook I can call them any freaking time I want to.
2. Messenger can send SMS messages. Simply, some people get ALL of their notifications as a text on their phone. If you are one of them and you pay for your texts, then yes, this will cost you money.
3. It can access your GPS. Yep because theirs a little location icon on the app that you can press or depress to let people know where you are chatting fom and here just a little bit more knowledge for you. If you have GPS enabled on your phone, your location was out there from the time you got there. Google has you on satellite if they so choose to aim that at you. Are you more worried that Facebook knows where you are or that Google can find you? Take your pick if you have it enabled you are NOT waldo, you are holding a big flashing beacon stating where you are and just for shits and giggles here's another little bit of knowledge. FB messenger GPS pin points you withina 30 miles radius. Do you know how many times my FB GPS has pin pointed me like fifteen miles from where I actually am??
4. It can access your camera. Uhm yeah if you click the button to send a picture/video over messenger. It CANNOT do this if your phone is in standby. It IS NOT recording you while you sleep or creep over to your booty calls house for a quickie.
5. It is not reading your private messages and sending them to Facebook. Yes FB CAN access the conversations should they have to but it takes a court order. They cannot go in and say "Oh this person was talking about you're killing me! Let's call the police!! If at any time you think that the moguls that run Facebook have nothing better to do than assign someone to sit and read your messages then dammit you don't deserve to even have a smart phone. The thing is smarter than you. Put it back in the box and go sit in the corner.
If you watch the video to the end he even admits that this is all in the terms and conditions WHICH HE DID NOT READ, BUT ACCEPTED NONE THE LESS. Dude, really, I have a real estate contract for some land down in Florida that I want you to sign. I may not read the whole thing but at least I scanned it for the permissions part.
And yes children these days are lying about their age to get a facebook (And the required age is 15 not 11. Seriously man, READ the more you know.... smh) But if they agree to the terms and conditions the bigger problem is not that they can't do so legally but THEY ARE TECHNICALLY PUBLICLY BREAKING THE LAW BY LYING AND AGREEING TO THEM. "LIl Jr is only 9 years old but he has a facebook and uses messenger all the time. What?? He agreed to the terms and conditions?? He can't do that!! But he agreed and he talked about bombing the white house?? Aw shookie, Little Jr is going to JV cause he agreed!" If you can't see the sarcasm dripping off that shut off your phone, put t back in the box and go sit in the corner.
GROW UP! The messenger app is only doing what it's supposed to do. Conveying a message from one person to another person. That's all. unless you tell it to do more, it's not doing anything more.
