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Facebook now has 4 products that more than 1B people use every month
- rgbrenner 10y agoIs messenger really a separate product from Facebook (product)? I find it hard to believe it would survive if people stopped using Facebook. The two seem (to me anyway) to be intricately linked. That makes it very different than Instagram and whatsapp
- dirtyaura 10y agoI know a lot of people who nowadays use only Messenger, not Facebook proper. Originally they were tied together, but Messenger is well executed communication service with huge network of people. Lots of utility value. Totally could survive alone.
- pasbesoin 10y agoI have a friend who's transitioned to maybe one post a week on FB. Still also goes on there for "Happy Birthday" wishes and to respond to tags and such a bit. She's on Messenger all day, every day. Messenger appears to be increasingly capturing IM for the masses. From the bit I see. Others can probably speak better to the details, but it seems to represent the best mix of identity and reachability for "normal" human interaction, at least here in this part of the U.S. She runs into a friend of a friend. They don't share any contact information. He reaches out to her, afterward, on Messenger. I need to get in touch with one of her friends. The only connection we have is both being her friend on FB. Messenger does the trick. FB seems to have developed and positioned it quite effectively. Despite / in the face of early and continuing privacy concerns.
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- AznHisoka 10y agoThey spent billions on both of them and they're both consumer apps. They had better have a billion people using them.
- coralreef 10y agoEven if you had $billions to spend, I don't know that anyone could ever actually acquire a billion active users for an app.