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MESSENGERS : GAME - CHANGERS IN COMMUNICATION

EMAIL COMPETES WITH MESSAGING FOR RELEVANCE

Here’s a small question for you: when was the last time you contacted someone by making a traditional phone call? It probably wasn’t recently. That’s because the continuing rise of messaging apps and services, like Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Snapchat and iMessage, is changing the game when it comes to communication - with friends, family and even businesses and work colleagues. Meanwhile, social media is transforming the way many of us consume news, leaving the question: what relevance will traditional phone calls and email have in the foreseeable future?

SOME OF THE LEADING LIGHTS IN MESSAGING

In February 2016, . The following July, Facebook, the owner of WhatsApp, announced that . This makes Messenger and WhatsApp two of

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