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Facebook just doesn’t get Bots
- onion2k 10y agoFacebook's interest in bots has nothing to do with enabling the delivery of amusing gifs and everything to do with becoming the de facto service to prove who you are on the internet. If that service is in the first-world Western internet then who you are is proved by an OAuth secret tied to your Facebook profile. If that service is in the developing world then it's going to have to work using a mobile chat app and a textual interface, and be on a network that user's are happy to use because the data comes free from Internet.org ... eg a bot on Facebook chat. All of Facebook's chatter about bots is about getting people to register on Facebook.
- idoco 10y agoI don't think that Facebook is trying to ride the chatbot trend because it will work better with 3rd world slow internet. Their vision is like Telegram's (and many others) - That people will find it easier to use a natural language interface to interact with services.