Re:WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook
by mmsimanga on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @04:17AM
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Echoing your statement, "Facebook is the Internet". In Africa most telecoms have special data bundles for Facebook and WhatsApp. Normal data bundles to browse the Internet are just too expensive. A dollar will give you unlimited access to Facebook and WhatsApp for about 2 weeks.
I have a few cows back in my village. I have toyed with the idea of creating a cattle monitoring application that would have to make use of Facebook or WhatsApp. The herder sends me a picture every evening of the cows. I want to piggy back on the affordable connectivity given to Facebook and WhatsApp. Yes I know, this would contribute to the problem but for me losing cattle is a bigger problem. From parent, finding a job is a bigger problem so we all get sucked into Facebook.
Re:WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook
by icebraining on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @07:51AM
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Getting FB to subsidize your cow tracking needs sounds great to me!
Re:WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook
by ianlevesque on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @05:03AM
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Sounds like a Messenger bot would work well for that use case actually.
writing this comment from South-East Europe where many people use facebook not just for cat pics but to find work and network with colleagues. It's a huge problem in developing countries where facebook IS the Internet. FB recently announced it would roll out job-posts for low-income workers[¹]. This will mean an even stronger lock-in for the user. While the discussion on ethics evolve mostly user-privacy and CA/FB role in Brexit/election hacking, the problem for less developed regions is facebook taking from them without giving back (fb is known not to pay it's taxes in Europe)
¹ https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/28/facebook-job-posts/