End of SMS? WhatsApp and Facebook messages surpass writings by three times

Individuals sent three times the same number of messages on Facebook's Messenger and WhatsApp in 2015 as they did by means of SMS. 

Facebook has uncovered that its two informing stages process 60 billion messages a day, very nearly three times the 23 billion SMS messages that are sent. 

WhatsApp exceeded SMS a little more than a year prior, when Facebook reported that the informing application took care of 30 billion messages each day, contrasted with 20 billion sent through SMS. 

Facebook Messenger is quickly turning into a fundamental contender in the battle to be the most prevalent approach to message, as the quickest developing stage in the organization's collection. 

Becoming quicker than any semblance of WhatsApp and Instagram, the quantity of individuals on Messenger soared from 800 million to 900 million in the initial four months of 2016, shutting the hole with WhatsApp, which hit one billion clients in February. 

Facebook uncovered the figures at its F8 designer's meeting in San Francisco this month. 

Passing of SMS? 

With the ascent of Wi-Fi and 4G, web associated informing applications have commenced the moderate demise of the unassuming SMS message. Writings can be costly on some agreements, require a portable flag, and don't have propelled components, for example, bunch talks and record sharing. 

The quantity of instant messages sent each year has relentlessly expanded, with 8.6 trillion sent in 2016 up from 8 trillion in 2012, yet it has neglected to keep pace with the relative development of cell telephones. 

As instant message use drops, Silicon Valley mammoths keep on innovating with informing applications. 

Facebook and Microsoft, for instance, are bringing bots into Messenger and Skype individually with the expectation that informing applications will supplant SMS, as well as all applications. 

Also, Google as of late declared that it is collaborating with Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom and America Movil to make "Rich Communications Services", the eagerly awaited successor to SMS, a reality.