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That's actually the exact opposite of what's happening. Facebook enables people with little knowledge of e-commerce to just open a shop with a few clicks. All
by shp0ngle 6y ago
That's actually the exact opposite of what's happening.
Facebook enables people with little knowledge of e-commerce to just open a shop with a few clicks. All the selling happens in messages.
What's your proposed alternative? Some government-sponsored app that has the same features as Facebook? Cool. Try that and let me know how it goes in Bangladesh.
If it wasn't Facebook, it would be some other large centralized system.
Maybe it would be India-based, or China-based, though.
- monadic2 6y agoHuh apparently all I need to do to justify literally any business model a) have a small mountain of cash and b) make it convenient. People will just give up on trying to imagine a way to do things better. Why bother when I already do things as well as anyone can imagine?
- blantonl 6y agoMaking a business transaction convenient typically involves a process of imagining a way to do things better.
- monadic2 6y agoDoes it? Not from my experience on either side of the transaction.... in my eyes all of the “innovation” facebook has produced (along with every other large tech company) has been straightforward, by the book scaling of extant business processes with technology. Anyway if there’s a process it can hardly be called imagination now can it? It’s just human-level algorithms fed by cash. If you can’t imagine how to improve this you’re certainly lacking for either observational skill or bound by some dogmatic worldview.