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Re:Mark Zuckerberg on Messenger (2013) by rr808 on Saturday May 21, 2022 @11:00PM (#31464499)
Is it really a bargain though? What does FB get out of WA?
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg on Messenger (2013) by throwaway290 on Saturday May 21, 2022 @11:11PM (#31464550)
Contacts and metadata. Who knows who and how often they talk. Good for building shadow graphs.
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg on Messenger (2013) by laluser on Saturday May 21, 2022 @11:09PM (#31464543)
A chance to monetize billions of users. There’s not much else to it.
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