Facebook seems intent upon making “Inbox” history. After continuously pushing users to download the Messenger application, the social media giant introduced a web version of Facebook messenger around two years ago. And something mimicking that same web version is now replacing Inbox on Facebook proper.

The change has been scattered across the world and while not everyone is able to spot it at present, the fact that users in the US, Europe and Asia are all witnessing it suggests that it is more than a tests. Tests after all, are performed on a localized basis with a particular audience or demography as subjects. What’s more, Facebook head David Marcus accepted almost as much in his comments on Facebook.

There have been a few comments here about our recent migration from the legacy “Messages” interface on facebook.com to Messenger.com. 

Addressing all the people who were complaining about the change, he said

I do understand that some of you are not using either the Messenger app, or Messenger.com. Maybe you don’t have a smartphone, maybe you just want to use Facebook products exclusively on your computer, and we do respect that.

Okay, so as far as the changes brought about are concerned, the inbox icon has been replaced by a messenger icon, thusly:

Notice the messenger icon at the top right hand corner.

Next up, clicking on the box takes you to a screen that is similar to messenger.com. There are a bunch of newly added option available on the right side as well, such as the name friends in selected chat and the time when they were recently active. You can also search the conversation or jump to that particular person’s Facebook profile.

Also available are controls for voice and video calls and the option to hide the information panel, should you feel you are being overwhelmed. Also, Message requests, archived messages etc. are now stowed away under settings on top left.

Marcus also noted the important points received from the user feedback, and said that Facebook will look into the matter.

• The ability to write longer messages without your paragraphs being truncated in the composer. 
• Improvements on how search works.
• Filtering messages by “unread”
• Improvements on photo sharing and consumption.

The “we will look into all of the above” part is important, considering that it suggests that for better or worse, Facebook Messenger his here to stay.  Meanwhile, do let us know if you are among those seeing the change.