[1] The app allowed users to send and receive videos, photos, stickers,[2] and voice messages in addition to text.
[5] MessageMe was founded in 2012 in by Arjun Sethi, Alexander Chee, Justin Rosenthal and Vivek Tatineni and based out of San Francisco, California.
[12][13] In an internal March 2013 email thread, Justin Osofsky, former Facebook director of platform partnerships, wrote: In the first week after launch, MessageMe actually didn't make any friends.get calls.
In terms of next steps, Monika is working with Mike Nowak to see if there are any other messenger apps which have hit the growth team's radar recently.
[19] MessageMe along with WhatsApp, Kik and others led the movement of mobile messaging in the United States away from text-based SMS and towards richer text messaging which included audio, video, doodles, stickers, location and more in addition to text.
[20] Global startups that led this trend included WeChat in China, Line in Japan, and KakaoTalk in Korea.