Facebook's moves to unbundle apps for its various social network services continues with the new Groups app. Groups is now exclusively for group page discussions that were formerly included through the main Facebook app.

The division is similar to Facebook's separation of the chat Messenger app for iOS phones. However, Facebook, at least for now, will not be completely removing group functionality from its Facebook app. With Messenger, users were forced to download the unique application if they wanted to see or send any correspondence through their Facebook friends list.

In an announcement from the social media giant, the app will allow for the same kind of activity possible through the groups pages online or formerly within mobile versions of Facebook, stating it can help users "to stay in touch with family, collaborate on projects, plan trips and offer support to friends."

Facebook Groups will display most frequently used friends' groups on the top of the app.

"You can still use Facebook Groups in the main Facebook app and on desktop, and over time we'll continue to make those experiences faster and better, too," Facebook explained to users in a statement from its newsroom.

This move has many critics questioning why Facebook is pushing its members to download features that were already previously part of mobile Facebook.

"The Groups app-which, as the name would suggests, consists entirely of Groups and nothing else-does seem now like a plainer, less functional version of another of Facebook's recent onslaught of apps, Rooms," Gizmodo writer Ashley Feinberg said. "And considering that most people probably haven't regularly used any of their Groups since 2011, spinning the feature off into its very own app seems like an odd choice."

However, this may be the very reason that Facebook pushed Groups out of the proverbial nest. By breaking out the feature into a unique app, the company will likely encourage more people to engage with others through their interface.