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Facebook is effectively a "super app" already. * Friends' posts * News * Pages (manage your business and engage with customers) * Discussion * Marketplace

Facebook is effectively a "super app" already. * Friends' posts * News * Pages (manage your business and engage with customers) * Discussion * Marketplace -- huge for some people * Groups -- huge for some people * Probably other functionality I've no idea about (Of course, I happen to think it does a terrible job of its original purpose, which is friends' posts, but clearly lots of users use it anyway...)

tschwimmer 4y ago
It's not even close to these super apps outside the states. You can renew your drivers license in WeChat.
- p_l 4y ago
  IIRC You can sue someone in civil court, get through the whole process, get a sentence and get paid compensation when you win, all in WeChat
  - bl0rg 4y ago
    Sounds kinda nice when you put it like that.
    - p_l 4y ago
      Read such an example from early in the COVID-19 pandemic, where a gym tried to bill someone despite rules that such bills had to be suspended during lockdown or something similar. I think the whole affair with court claim etc. was done over WeChat, I do not recall anything outside of it.
- signal11 4y ago
  There’s no technical blocker about why this couldn’t be done in Facebook. Ultimately it’s a governance issue, about how much American/European citizens are comfortable funnelling processes like drivers licenses (or even court cases) through a private entity like Facebook.
sweetbitter 4y ago
It's not 2010 anymore. How many people in the USA are both under 40 and using Facebook?
- bobthepanda 4y ago
  And of those people, who left is using it as more than a glorified event calendar?
- catach 4y ago
  Quite a lot, seems like: https://www.statista.com/statistics/187549/facebook-distribution-of-users-age-group-usa/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/187549/facebook-distribu...
  - sellyme 4y ago
    ...that data appears to be claiming that more 25-34yos in the United States use Facebook than actually exist.

tschwimmer 4y ago

It's not even close to these super apps outside the states. You can renew your drivers license in WeChat.

p_l 4y ago
IIRC You can sue someone in civil court, get through the whole process, get a sentence and get paid compensation when you win, all in WeChat
- bl0rg 4y ago
  Sounds kinda nice when you put it like that.
  - p_l 4y ago
    Read such an example from early in the COVID-19 pandemic, where a gym tried to bill someone despite rules that such bills had to be suspended during lockdown or something similar. I think the whole affair with court claim etc. was done over WeChat, I do not recall anything outside of it.
signal11 4y ago
There’s no technical blocker about why this couldn’t be done in Facebook. Ultimately it’s a governance issue, about how much American/European citizens are comfortable funnelling processes like drivers licenses (or even court cases) through a private entity like Facebook.

sweetbitter 4y ago

It's not 2010 anymore. How many people in the USA are both under 40 and using Facebook?

bobthepanda 4y ago
And of those people, who left is using it as more than a glorified event calendar?
catach 4y ago
Quite a lot, seems like: https://www.statista.com/statistics/187549/facebook-distribution-of-users-age-group-usa/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/187549/facebook-distribu...
- sellyme 4y ago
  ...that data appears to be claiming that more 25-34yos in the United States use Facebook than actually exist.