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Actually this was possible already, and most of Facebook's primary features existed before Facebook. Facebook can really be described as the time wasting, addic

Actually this was possible already, and most of Facebook's primary features existed before Facebook. Facebook can really be described as the time wasting, addiction-inducing, feature-sets on top of standard social communication features, driven by their main goal of delivering and monetizing ads. Helping you communicate with your friends and family? That's just an ad vector. Recently my friend group switched over to a non-facebook-owned messaging service, and the hardest part was breaking old habits. The facebook specific features? Messenger actually had fewer features to help us communicate and more features designed to distract us and make us mindlessly consume.

kayoone 8y ago
In reality it's hard to get all of your friends and family to switch services, because all of their circles also have to change and most of them don't really care about the negatives of FB. In the end you end up with 10 different messengers. The big convenience about FB is that everyone is on it and you don't need their mobile phone number.
- zaarn 8y ago
  Not everyone is on FB and FB has been bleeding users to instagram, whatsapp and other internet services for a while now. I could say the same thing about WhatsApp really; everyone is on it so why switch to Facebook?
  - lmm 8y ago
    To my mind the killer is event organisation. Put it this way: Meetup is apparently a viable business while charging money for a less-good version of something Facebook offers for free-at-point-of-use. No-one else really competes in that space at all (group chats aren't suitable because people who can't make a given event end up being spammed with all the details of it anyway, while people who join late miss out on details that were posted earlier).
    - zaarn 8y ago
      Where I live, everyone uses either email, whatsapp or public spaces to advertise and organize meetups, from my sister I know that most parties are orgnaized over WA or Instagram, nobody likes using FB for it.
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  - meragrin 8y ago
    There is really no point in switching to Facebook from Instagram and WhatsApp since Facebook is going to do it for you.
  - kayoone 8y ago
    Everyone is on WA and i prefer it too, but I still need their mobile number, so it's more for close friends/family. I communicate with some coworkers i hang out with on Messenger because i haven't bothered to ask them for their number yet. However, i have definitely reduced my FB usage to an absolute minimum, which is mostly a couple of bigger groups I am part of. Instagram is kind of limited as a messenger. At the end of the day, be it FB, WA, IG ...it is still FB your giving your data to ;)
  - anonyxyz 8y ago
    Instagram and whatsapp ARE facebook..
    - zaarn 8y ago
      They are facebook the corporation, not facebook the website.
d35007 8y ago
> this was possible already, and most of Facebook's primary features existed before Facebook. I constantly tell people that my favorite social networking platform is email. I get laughed at a lot.

kayoone 8y ago

In reality it's hard to get all of your friends and family to switch services, because all of their circles also have to change and most of them don't really care about the negatives of FB. In the end you end up with 10 different messengers. The big convenience about FB is that everyone is on it and you don't need their mobile phone number.

zaarn 8y ago
Not everyone is on FB and FB has been bleeding users to instagram, whatsapp and other internet services for a while now. I could say the same thing about WhatsApp really; everyone is on it so why switch to Facebook?
- lmm 8y ago
  To my mind the killer is event organisation. Put it this way: Meetup is apparently a viable business while charging money for a less-good version of something Facebook offers for free-at-point-of-use. No-one else really competes in that space at all (group chats aren't suitable because people who can't make a given event end up being spammed with all the details of it anyway, while people who join late miss out on details that were posted earlier).
  - zaarn 8y ago
    Where I live, everyone uses either email, whatsapp or public spaces to advertise and organize meetups, from my sister I know that most parties are orgnaized over WA or Instagram, nobody likes using FB for it.
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- meragrin 8y ago
  There is really no point in switching to Facebook from Instagram and WhatsApp since Facebook is going to do it for you.
- kayoone 8y ago
  Everyone is on WA and i prefer it too, but I still need their mobile number, so it's more for close friends/family. I communicate with some coworkers i hang out with on Messenger because i haven't bothered to ask them for their number yet. However, i have definitely reduced my FB usage to an absolute minimum, which is mostly a couple of bigger groups I am part of. Instagram is kind of limited as a messenger. At the end of the day, be it FB, WA, IG ...it is still FB your giving your data to ;)
- anonyxyz 8y ago
  Instagram and whatsapp ARE facebook..
  - zaarn 8y ago
    They are facebook the corporation, not facebook the website.

d35007 8y ago

> this was possible already, and most of Facebook's primary features existed before Facebook. I constantly tell people that my favorite social networking platform is email. I get laughed at a lot.