Facebook’s New Messaging App Aims to Do Away With SMS | Epicenter | Wired.com: Dubbed “the modern messaging system” by Mark Zuckerberg, Messages wrangles all private communication that occurs between two Facebook users — whether that’s an instant message via Facebook chat, or a private message using the traditional inbox — into one individual thread. Messages also came with an option to create a Facebook-based e-mail address. So if Facebook had its sights set on doing away with e-mail and instant messaging clients (AIM, ICQ) by introducing Messages, with the Messenger app, Facebook aims to do away with traditional SMS text messaging.