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Of Course Facebook Is Putting a Snapchat Clone Inside WhatsApp (mashable.com)
Karissa Bell, writing for Mashable: Facebook is about to start pushing its next Snapchat clone on a new set of 1 billion+ users. WhatsApp is now starting to roll out its own version of Stories with an update to its Status feature. Launching now in the Netherlands and France, the feature will eventually be live in all the countries where the messaging app is available. [...] The update, which coincides with the chat app's eighth birthday, makes WhatsApp the last of the major Facebook services to get the Snapchat treatment. (The company started with Instagram last year before adding Snapchat-like features to Messenger and the main Facebook app.) Journalist Casey Newton sums up the situation with this sarcastic tweet, "Honestly whatever you think of Evan Spiegel, it's impressive that he's taking Snap public while serving as Facebook's chief product officer."
screw this, I am moving to Wire
Snap is as good as dead.
is the new "I don't have a TV."
Snapchat's IPO will net the founders and initial investor over a billion dollars, grant exactly zero voting rights to the IPO investors, and smells for all the world like a Ponzi scheme. So, from this story I gather that Snapchat's people are moonlighting with Facebook to integrate the same product into a competitor's ecosystem. I don't get it: how do people like Spiegel not get lynched in the streets?
For those of us over 30, what does "snapchat treatment" mean? You can already send photos and video and make phonecalls.
moox. for a new generation.
But can you put cat ears on your pictures? This is what they mean.
Since you're over 30, you should remember the original Tron. Facebook is doing what the MCP did and absorbing the functions of popular apps so it grows bigger.
a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Appbook is apping AppChat in AppApp, which makes it even appier than before! Only LUDDITES will be mad because they don't know how to app apps!
Apps!
Facebook + SnapChat + WhatsApp = 0 + 0 + 0 = nothing of value was lost.
There are tons of apps that did this on iOS and Android. Of course, the app had a good chance of sending the pic to an upstream provider where the editing was done, but hey, people are happy to trade everything for "free" stuff.
Sounds like the novelty factor on that would wear off pretty fast
moox. for a new generation.
My niece (13 yo) called me a dinosaur the other day.
"You're a dinosaur, you and my mom still have a Facebook account." I don't really know what to say. Do kids view Facebook as something for their parents so it doesn't matter what features are added they're not going to use any Facebook service? I have no clue because I don't "get" the appeal of Snapchat. The interface and functionality seems so disjointed. I was driving her and her friend when some boys in another car rolled down their windows and asked the girls for their Snapchat name. So many I'll buy some Snap stock when they IPO because all the kids are using it.
FB keeps attention by having new "stickers" be used and pulling older ones.
Snapchat has one of the better UI's around, really discoverable and quick, with great presentation of content (always full-screen).
Many attempts to graft Snapchat into other apps have been done but they are all doomed to failure because they will never be as focused as Snapchat is.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
It means that, like facebook messenger, it'll go from an app which lets you select a contact to start/continue a conversation with, to an app where the contact list is interrupted with irrelevant lists of who's online now (who cares?) and people you might know (huh?), before finally changing and being always one wrong press away from launching the camera and letting you add retarded shit like rainbows and stickers to photos. You'd have to be either a moron or 13 years old to appreciate it. I stopped using facebook messenger when this happened and it looks like i'm going to have to stop using whatsapp soon too. Who knows what to, though. Signal, perhaps, or just email maybe.
From my experience, Facebook is a place for middle-aged women to either tell me how wonderful their husband/family is, or complain about how terrible their life is. Everyone else just seems to post pictures of minions telling me when it's Friday.
Nice analogy. Hopefully we get the same ending.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
Send casual nudes while obscuring your face with a filter.
Russian hackers delete Facebook and replace it with VK overnight?
Facebook has stolen the playbook from M$
For those of us over 30, what does "snapchat treatment" mean? You can already send photos and video and make phonecalls.
- I am quite a bit over 30 but let me try this, isn't 'snapchat treatment' similar to hit and run treatment?
You can't handle the truth.
You can send me casual nudes (female, not too overweight), and I don't care what you do to your face.
Dont trust anything made by Facebook to give you privacy. Your data is how they make money. Why buy a platform that is the complete opposite and not charge anyone for its use? Goodness of their hearts? No, it's been compromised from day one. There are countries that block Telegram (also don't trust) and Signal (the best; Tox clients are great too), but not WhatsApp? Dude...think about that. Facebook has offered Snap Chat soooo much money too and they turned them down. That's because, though Snap isn't perfect for sharing without worry, they know they do a hell of a lot better job at protecting user privacy than FB. Not that many people use WhatsApp as those that use Snap Chat, so unless FB can convince people to be more paranoid and "save the day," Snap Chat isn't going anywhere.
There used to be an app for Android called TextSecure. It was close to an ideal for messaging as one could get, because it did end to end encryption, no ads, could store texts encrypted, and so on. Wish it were still around.
"End Of Line"
Signal.