Social media giant says its Messenger app only 1% finished

Facebook has very sizable ambitions for its chat app, Messenger.

Ambitions that are so big, it doesn't even think of Messenger as an app. Facebook considers Messenger as a platform on which entire businesses will be built.

"We are one per cent finished, as we say at Facebook,"Julien Codorniou, Facebook's director of platform partnerships, told David Rowan of Wired. "One day, there will be companies built on Messenger, and we are at the beginning of that ecosystem."

The idea is that Messenger will be an "app for everything."

Facebook wants retailers to communicate with their customers on it, rather than on their own sites. It wants you to use the app to book your next flight.

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Or search for a nearby restaurant and share its location with your friends. Or make reservations, order flowers for a crush, and just chat with your friends, of course.

And that is just what the company has already talked about publicly.

According to Business Insider, Messenger exec David Marcus tells Wired that the app has only taken "the first baby steps in a series of millions of steps."