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Facebook Now Lets You Fax Your Photos.
- jmathai 17y agoOnly makes sense that it's 1) a joke or 2) there's a deal with efax for...cash. Not sure what else efax could provide. Maybe free premium accounts for all facebook employees? Anyways, what an eyesore :).
- ryanwaggoner 17y agoSurprised this isn't from The Onion. Why the hell do we even have faxes anymore?
- netsp 17y agoIn the comments they were trying to figure out (before they realised the hoax) why would anyone possibly want this feature. You realise that anything that applies to facebook faxes applies to fax in general. What they come up with is that some non tech people don't email. But how many of these have fax machines? Who uses faxe machines and why.
- andrew1 17y agoIf you need to send a 'pen and paper' document or form to someone and you don't have a scanner or a photocopying machine which can make digital copies, then faxing is an option.
- netsp 17y agoI don't think faxes are any cheaper or easier then scanners (even though I've seen print/scan/copy/fax machines for under $50, so it isn't much of a point). I guess that is my question is Why would someone have a fax machine? The only answer I can think of is to send faxes to companies that prefer them. The question is then why does any company prefer to receive a fax? Why do they still exist?
- stavrianos 17y agoI've had to use faxes to interface with bureaucracies. They trust them, in a way that they won't trust email attachments.
- unalone 17y agoEither Facebook is really working hard to make itself accessible to tech-no human beings, or their developers have officially run out of ideas.
- bradgessler 17y agoI wonder when Posterous is going to pick up on this idea and build a fax interface into their service :)
- ivankirigin 17y agohttp://myfax.com http://myfax.com
- redorb 17y agoI think the answer might be if Facebook believed that the fax to email services will render fax machines obsolete but not fax numbers.... * right now when someone faxes my number it forwards to my email via PDF ... - I think if you forwarded me a photo to that fax number I might get the color photo via pdf? ... If they saw this happening and added it to their site / then filed for a patent of "Faxing photos from website" - then perhaps licensing would ensue or business models would be evolve... * I also think partnering with Efax is spammy as they spam my inbox a lot. thats my best reasoning which leads me to feel as "WTF?" as every other commenter so far [edit] I feel like such a dumbass for actually trying to explain their ridiculous joke / might mean I've been talking a little too much with out 'knowing'. see:http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/10/yeah-ok-so-facebook-punkd-us/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/10/yeah-ok-so-facebook-pun...
- Feynman 17y agoWhich leads to their next cool feature that will allow you to instantly hire an artist to go to your friends' houses and draw a copy of the photo on their sidewalk, in chalk. Pure Sweetness.
- ashu 17y agohahaha
- steveplace 17y agotechcrunch was had. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/10/yeah-ok-so-facebook-punkd-us/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/10/yeah-ok-so-facebook-pun... Great study in knee-jerk reactions
- cvg 17y agoIsn't a fax more admissible in court? Posting pics (or getting tagged) on FB just became that more dangerous.
- besquared 17y agoProving once again just how many phone calls techcrunch makes before posting stories containing "facts" and opinions drawn from those "facts". If anyone here works for a startup in the bay area, you'll know the answer is generally absolutely none.