Re:Chris Hughes Says It’s Time to Break Up Facebook
by johnday on Thursday May 09, 2019 @08:18AM
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WhatsApp certainly does not target younger demographics. Its goal is to be a messenger app for everybody.
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Re:Chris Hughes Says It’s Time to Break Up Facebook
by cameronbrown on Thursday May 09, 2019 @01:24PM
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Isn't that what Facebook Messenger is doing though? I could be mistaken, I'm just commenting on how it seems from my perspective.
Re:Chris Hughes Says It’s Time to Break Up Facebook
by johnday on Friday May 10, 2019 @06:14AM
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To some extent, yes. Facebook Messenger is very effective for communicating with people - so long as they're on Facebook. So it's a good way of keeping people in the system. I probably would have deactivated my account were it not for Messenger.
But WhatsApp is capable of including everyone regardless of whether they're on Facebook. As the pool of "I'm too cool for Facebook" people grows, more communities will move away from Messenger and WhatsApp is a good secondary as far as FB is concerned.