How to use Facebook Messenger without Facebook account

Previously, it was very easy to use Messenger without Facebook accounts, just using a phone number. Now this has changed, Messenger can no longer be used without having Facebook or at least without registering with the social network.

You can enter Messenger if you had an account on the social network at the time, but decided to stop using it. With the same email and password you can enter, it’s that simple. But what if you never had a Facebook account?

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Create an account for Messenger

If you don’t have a Facebook account and you never did, the situation is complicated, because you will have to use it to enter this service. In this case, you only have to create one, without having to shape your profile. The problem you will have is that, if you don’t want to give your data to Facebook or you don’t trust it, the application is from the same company and data will surely be shared, as is the case with WhatsApp and other apps from the same company.

You can do it from Messenger itself, when you download it from your mobile’s app store. You tap on create account and indicate your first and last name. You indicate your date of birth and telephone number. Then it will ask you about your gender and you will also have to indicate a password. You write it and click on register.

That’s when it asks if you have an account to search for or start a new one. They will send you a 5-digit code to confirm your identity, which will reach you at the phone number you have indicated, as you can see without having to enter an email. Once you confirm, you can start using Messenger.

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It will ask you if you want to add your friends, which will be your phone contacts, and you can do it or skip the step if you want. You will have to add a photo, which will be public. If you don’t, it will appear without a photo, only with the name you have indicated.

Then, you will give permissions to access Messenger from your mobile. You can activate that it searches your phone contacts or not. This will be most comfortable if this is who you want to talk to.

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You have to accept the option to send and receive SMS in Messenger if you want and once you have done it you are already in the Messenger service, without having to create a complicated Facebook account or give your email or anything. Without making a profile on the social network, making publications or whatever you want, just covering the data that we have told you before.

The step-by-step process is very simple and will take you just over a minute:

  1. Download Messenger
  2. Tap on Create account
  3. Write your name and surname
  4. confirm gender
  5. Indicate a password
  6. Click on register
  7. Confirm that you want to create an account
  8. Check your SMS
  9. Enter the code that you received by SMS in the app
  10. Add friends or skip the step
  11. Upload a photo (if you want)
  12. Give access permissions
  13. Confirm if you want me to search your contacts
  14. Accept or not send and receive SMS
  15. You can start using it

Now you can go to chats, calls, people and configure what you want. You can start sending messages or searching for people. It will not offer you the possibility to visit profiles, but you will practically have the same possibilities as with a Facebook account.