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Re:Facebook Chats Are Being Scanned by a CIA Funded Company? by wongarsu on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @01:07PM (#9375703)
>Finally, we are effectively coerced to using these products

Google may still be the best search engine, but I use Facebook solely for the chat functionality. If some competitor comes along that offers the same features with the same quality but better privacy I would have no problem with switching.

(In case somebody smells a startup idea or already know a solution, I am looking for a service with good, easy to use Android, Apple and Windows Phone Apps, website for desktop use (desktop client for Windows and Linux is fine too), decent direct-message as well as group chats with consistent message ordering. I should be able to view all my messages, including history, in Apps on all my phones as well as on my desktop.)

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Re:Facebook Chats Are Being Scanned by a CIA Funded Company? by Neetpeople on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @01:52PM (#9376043)
Would you find it strenuous to tell your friends about if such a thing existed?

I've always had a thesis that I'm not sure is true, perhaps i'm not social enough, although I have my facebook friends and many contacts in my phone I really only talk to 3-8 people. If such a thing existed I don't even know if it would be too much work to switch since I would only tell that small amount of people.

But perhaps i'm too antisocial, I wonder what other people think about that.

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Re:Facebook Chats Are Being Scanned by a CIA Funded Company? by wongarsu on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @08:10AM (#9380361)
Our whole friend group once switched to TextSecure we were all fed up with Facebook. Sadly, Facebook is a lot better than TextSecure and we switched back again.

I think if a competitor showed up that is seriously better than Facebook, every person switching could have a huge Ripple Effect. People already use a multitude of Apps/Services for communication, using one more isn't a big enough cost to invoke the network effect in my opinion.

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Re:Facebook Chats Are Being Scanned by a CIA Funded Company? by magicalist on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @01:21PM (#9375801)
There are a ton of chat clients. The issue is all these closed chat networks mean that even the best client can't talk to your facebook contacts, gmail chat contacts, etc (or you sort of can today in a nerfed way, but XMPP is going away soon for both).
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