Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp and Instagram – all of these Apps belong to the Facebook group, but are largely independent of each other. Mark Zuckerberg wants to change that now.

As the New York Times reported, has ordered Mark Zuckerberg, Whatsapp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger should be better interlinked. This means that you should be able to communicate across different platforms. The three Apps should remain independent of the underlying technology, however, should be standardized.

in the long term, the various Apps to be more attractive, the users to use the Apps more and more money to import. Whatsapp and Instagram have very many users, Facebook earns with the Apps, but hardly any money.

A Facebook spokesman expresses to FAZ.NET to the reporting. The company wants to offer the best possible chat services. The users would desire to chat services that are safe, fast, reliable, and private. In addition, it work to encrypt the Chat Apps are better, so the end-to-end. “We think about how we can make it easier to reach friends and family via different Social networks,” the spokesman said.

Sheryl Sandberg, Co-CEO of Facebook and one of the most powerful managers of the group, said a few days ago in an Interview with FAZ.NET, Facebook will use “information in a manner that protects the privacy of the people, thus driving people advertising reach, which could be interested in your products.”

to unify A difficulty, however, will be the encryption of the different platforms. So far, only Whatsapp is, by default, end-to-end encrypted. In addition, only a phone number is to sign in to Whatsapp, while Instagram and Facebook Messenger’s request for a user profile under a different name and age.

No enthusiasm in the case of Whatsapp and Instagram

a few months Ago, Zuckerberg has begun, apparently, the idea of internally promoting and is not pushed to enthusiasm. The Instagram founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger came back in the fall. Also, the Whatsapp founders have left the company for similar reasons. Dozens of Whatsapp-the employee should be advised, therefore, with Zuckerberg to each other.