“By allowing these messaging apps to speak to one another across platforms, Facebook is no doubt hoping that it will keep its users more engaged and get them to use this merged system as their primary messaging service.” (Either that, or they’re trying to make it harder for the government if it calls for the company to be broken up.) Facebook plans to let Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp users message each other.

+ Reveal: Facebook knowingly duped game-playing kids and their parents out of money.