Fabook has recently announced that anyone with a phone running Windows Phone 8.1 or lower Facebook Messenger will no longer be compatible.
According to Facebook they’ve already started contacting the small percentage of users and warned them about the impending lack of support.
It’s the latest in a series of decisions being made by Facebook, WhatsApp to start cutting off the oldest smartphones around.
In January this year, WhatsApp announced that it would be ending support for handsets running Android 2.1 or 2.2 or iOS 6, as well as iPhone 3GS devices and Windows Phone 7s.
As older smartphones are cut off from the latest security updates apps can no longer guarantee that the information they contain will be as secure as they would expect, reported Huffington Post.
Then of course there’s basic hardware functionality; as phone’s get more complex so too can the apps that they run, thus cutting out slower, less capable smartphones.
