In what is the grimmest in a wave of announcements, it appears that Facebook will shutter its Facebook Messenger for Windows and Firefox applications. In what is really a sparse announcement, The Next Web points out that the company noted:

We’re sorry, but we can no longer support Facebook Messenger for Windows, and it will stop working on March 3, 2014…We really appreciate you using Messenger to reach your friends, and we want to make sure you know that you can keep chatting and view all your messages on http://www.facebook.com. Learn more.¹

The learn more link directs you to a page that explains uninstalling the messenger application. Further, Facebook will also discontinue their messenger app for Firefox on the same date, noting on the Learn More page, “As of March 3, 2014 Messenger for Windows and Firefox will stop working.”

This is on the heels of Facebook’s announcement that it would be ending its @facebook.com email service. According to an article on The Verge, the company stated bluntly, “Most people have not been using their @facebook.com email address.”² While these two shuttering of these two services represent a massive loss of man-hours for Facebook, it is refreshing to see the company end and discontinue supporting services that people were not using.