Why Facebook is well placed to weather an advertising boycott

Re:Why Facebook is well placed to weather an advertising boy... by pmontra on Thursday July 02, 2020 @01:09AM (#23710198)

Here in Europe messaging systems took off around year 2000 because they were free alternatives to SMSes. Network effects were small and people switched a lot. Those effects are huge now but I believe that if we had to start paying for Messenger or WhatsApp we would switch to something else, probably Telegram.

WhatsApp used to require a small payment many years ago but would extend the free trial period if one did not pay. Maybe they were A/B testing the willingness of people to pay. They even blocked the app for a few days sometimes, then invariably unblocked it after a few days. Somebody paid, almost everybody didn't.

About Events, I didn't even know they have an app for that. I looked for it on Google Play and didn't find it. Is it part of the Facebook app? I saw people using Eventbrite when showing up at events. No in person events yet after the end of the lockdown.

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Re:Why Facebook is well placed to weather an advertising boy... by batiudrami on Thursday July 02, 2020 @02:50AM (#23710644)

They have a standalone app called Local but I was talking about events within the main app. Being able to easily see what my friends are doing each weekend and what else is on in my city is great (especially as we no longer have weekly street press).

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