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Re:India bans PUBG, Baidu and more than 100 apps linked to C... by oefrha on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @01:51PM (#24355804)
Facebook Messenger also "wasn't even started till 2011". Before 2011 China had very mature local messaging (QQ, from the company behind WeChat) and less mature but burgeoning social networking (loads of them I believe, including part of QQ). Cherry-picking the date of one next-gen product that later took over is meaningless.
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Re:India bans PUBG, Baidu and more than 100 apps linked to C... by fma on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @02:41PM (#24356363)
Hmm...per Wikipedia the original Facebook chat was started in 2008. Facebook Messenger for mobile was 2011. QQ didn't have their mobile version till 2013.

Facebook cannibalized social networks in the US and homegrown networks abroad. Though we'd never know, I'd believe they would have done the same in China.

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Re:India bans PUBG, Baidu and more than 100 apps linked to C... by balola on Thursday September 03, 2020 @01:29AM (#24361016)
QQ has gone mobile since the WAP era.
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