Facebook ditches support for BlackBerry

With 1.44 billion mobile monthly active users as of Dec. 2015, Facebook is the most popular mobile app in the world.

Unfortunately for BlackBerry users, they won't be a part of this statistic come year-end, as Facebook will stop supporting the BlackBerry and BBOS platforms at the end of 2016. 

The news comes less than a month after Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp announced it will stop supporting BlackBerry devices by the end of the year. 

BlackBerry App Ecosystem lead Lou Gazzola announced the change in a blog post last week, saying Facebook would discontinue support of their essential APIs for BlackBerry.  Read more...