Facebook is the most popular social media application which was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg along with the help of fellow Harvard College students and roommates. Now Facebook has been adding more and more features for making it more user-friendly and initiative.
Facebook is expanding its features daily. Some of the features like Facebook dynamic text/type, Phone, Mood Faces, Poke and Greetings, Status updates, etc. Facebook is expanding its features and also has added video to messengers lite. Messenger Lite which was first launched in 2015 which was made especially for developing countries where mobile usages are costly and where people are more likely to use lower-end Android devices.
Messenger Lite features were only text messaging, photo, link sharing, and stickers. Messenger lite now also has added Video feature which was previously absent making it as a viable replacement for the full-featured messenger. Messenger Lite is very much easy to install, take less storage and loads very much quickly.
Facebook Messenger Lite app for Android after getting the video chat has become very popular especially in developing countries. Messenger lite is in over 100 countries today.
It is not as popular as primary messenger application, but it has at one point reached the top 10 app rankings all over the world according to the stats from APPAnnie. Messenger Lite has now been made the perfect Facebook messenger application.
Video chats are an expected and essential part of a day to day communication in today’s messaging experience. In the US only 2% of people have just have installed Messenger Lite and also messenger lite overall still not ranked in a mass of users, we can see why Facebook is looking to do more.
To make the Messenger Lite providing video features for making the people use the messenger lite more. Moreover, Facebook previously revealed that 17 billion video chats were made throughout the year 2017- double the number in 2016. So, it is very much clear about the path is taken by Facebook for the messenger lite. For communication between the two users in an android phone, we consider video chatting which is very popular on the basic messenger app. So now the users can also use video chatting facility in messenger lite.
So, Facebook has to stop right now and not add any more feature in messenger lite; otherwise, the users would need a lighter messenger app in the coming few years to reset everything again.
By offering a more feature to it, Facebook provides a greater chance of attracting users to a broader range of handsets and private plans. It also helps in producing more competition with their rivals.
