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Considering Facebook is either dead or dying in the tech savey under 40 market who is this aimed at? How many 55 year old boomers are going to exchange their kn
by swarnie_ 7y ago
Considering Facebook is either dead or dying in the tech savey under 40 market who is this aimed at? How many 55 year old boomers are going to exchange their known fiat currency for magic Facebook bucks?
Also any note yet or the scope of this? Will it be pushed to Instagram and what ever other garbage Facebook peddle?
- snarf21 7y agoThis is all about exploiting the unbanked and the migrants/illegals that send cross border payments home. This is why Visa and PayPal are involved too, they want a piece of that pie as well. This is FB seeing how well WeChat has done with payments and going after Africa and South America since Asia has already been won. They have said this will be available in Messenger and WhatsApp.
- malvosenior 7y agoYou're aware that Facebook owns Instagram and Whatsapp right? It's by far the number one social networking company for people under 40.
- jkoudys 7y agoand if you're only looking at the people around you in your own country, that can undersell their influence even more. The entirety of India runs on WhatsApp these days. I was in Cartagena earlier this year, and even their taxi cab dispatch was running on it.
- swarnie_ 7y ago> Will it be pushed to Instagram and what ever other garbage Facebook peddle? I literally reference them owning Instagram in my post, Whatsapp i forgot about admittedly/