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If you don't have an active Facebook account on your device, tap "Create New Account" on the first screen. To begin, either install the Messenger app on your device, if you don't already have it, or delete and reinstall Messenger, then open it. Step 1: Start from Scratch with Messenger If you have an existing Facebook account, though, you may hit some annoying hiccups. You can delete your old Messenger account if you have one, but it isn't necessary for making a standalone Messenger account. Starting a new Messenger account still lets you message people on Facebook, so you won't miss out there. If you genuinely want to use Messenger without having any other connection to Facebook, you will have to make a new Messenger account. You Don't Need to Delete Your Current Messenger Account

We'll show you how easy it is to set up a new Messenger account without a Facebook account, and afterward, we'll briefly talk about another option available to you if you want to keep the Messenger account you have right now that's connected to your Facebook. However, that doesn't mean you can't use Messenger without Facebook - you just have to start from scratch. Deleting your Facebook erases your Messenger account and all of your chats, so if you don't want to lose that data, you can't go nuclear. To be clear, though, you do need to keep your Facebook account if you want to hang on to your Messenger app as it stands. But here's a secret you might not know: you don't need to have a Facebook account to use Facebook's popular chat app. One reason you might not have pulled the trigger on your Facebook account yet could be because of Messenger, which provides millions of people with different devices an easy way to communicate with each other. For some of you, whether or not to delete Facebook is a daily struggle.