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Re:Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox by chrischen on Friday March 15, 2019 @02:05AM (#19396983)
Actually this was possible already, and most of Facebook's primary features existed before Facebook. Facebook can really be described as the time wasting, addiction-inducing, feature-sets on top of standard social communication features, driven by their main goal of delivering and monetizing ads. Helping you communicate with your friends and family? That's just an ad vector.

Recently my friend group switched over to a non-facebook-owned messaging service, and the hardest part was breaking old habits. The facebook specific features? Messenger actually had fewer features to help us communicate and more features designed to distract us and make us mindlessly consume.

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Re:Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox by kayoone on Friday March 15, 2019 @03:37AM (#19397448)
In reality it's hard to get all of your friends and family to switch services, because all of their circles also have to change and most of them don't really care about the negatives of FB. In the end you end up with 10 different messengers. The big convenience about FB is that everyone is on it and you don't need their mobile phone number.
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Re:Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox by zaarn on Friday March 15, 2019 @04:33AM (#19397756)
Not everyone is on FB and FB has been bleeding users to instagram, whatsapp and other internet services for a while now.

I could say the same thing about WhatsApp really; everyone is on it so why switch to Facebook?

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Re:Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox by lmm on Friday March 15, 2019 @05:48AM (#19398127)
To my mind the killer is event organisation. Put it this way: Meetup is apparently a viable business while charging money for a less-good version of something Facebook offers for free-at-point-of-use. No-one else really competes in that space at all (group chats aren't suitable because people who can't make a given event end up being spammed with all the details of it anyway, while people who join late miss out on details that were posted earlier).
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Re:Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox by zaarn on Friday March 15, 2019 @05:58AM (#19398172)
Where I live, everyone uses either email, whatsapp or public spaces to advertise and organize meetups, from my sister I know that most parties are orgnaized over WA or Instagram, nobody likes using FB for it.
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Re:Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox by meragrin on Friday March 15, 2019 @06:35AM (#19398364)
There is really no point in switching to Facebook from Instagram and WhatsApp since Facebook is going to do it for you.
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Re:Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox by kayoone on Saturday March 16, 2019 @04:17AM (#19406915)
Everyone is on WA and i prefer it too, but I still need their mobile number, so it's more for close friends/family. I communicate with some coworkers i hang out with on Messenger because i haven't bothered to ask them for their number yet. However, i have definitely reduced my FB usage to an absolute minimum, which is mostly a couple of bigger groups I am part of. Instagram is kind of limited as a messenger. At the end of the day, be it FB, WA, IG ...it is still FB your giving your data to ;)
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Re:Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox by anonyxyz on Saturday March 16, 2019 @07:38PM (#19411138)
Instagram and whatsapp ARE facebook..
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Re:Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox by zaarn on Sunday March 17, 2019 @04:36AM (#19412941)
They are facebook the corporation, not facebook the website.
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Re:Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox by d35007 on Friday March 15, 2019 @10:50AM (#19400192)
> this was possible already, and most of Facebook's primary features existed before Facebook.

I constantly tell people that my favorite social networking platform is email. I get laughed at a lot.

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