Brace yourselves, ads are coming to Facebook Messenger: A leaked report says that brands can start IM’ing advertising to us in a couple of months’ time. The leak implies there will be some way to control spam, but brands already seem to be finding ways around that.

The leaked documents seems to be at least partially authenticated. And it’s consistent with other things that Facebook said recently. Although it does appear to contradict Zuckerberg’s statement about (ahem) never advertising in IM.

So should you uninstall the Messenger app? In IT Blogwatch, bloggers never installed it in the first place. <!– Not to mention: <a href="#itbwaf" title="And Finally&hellip;“>XXXXXXXXXXXX… –>

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Source: COMPUTER WORLD