Facebook embraces Messenger minimalism with streamlined app

Facebook has produced a spartan new look for its Messenger communications app by stripping out extraneous clutter in favour of clean expanses of white.
Streamlining an unwieldy nine tabs to just three, the latest iteration seeks to go back to basics by better organising functionalities which had been shoe-horned in over the years while adding some new tricks of its own.
Explaining the changes Messenger vice-president Stan Chudnovsky said: “Development is a sequential thing. You b