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Facebook Is Shutting Down Moments (techcrunch.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the going-going-gone dept.

Facebook Moments, the standalone mobile app designed to let users privately share photos and videos, is shutting down next month. "Facebook confirmed the app's services will end February 25," reports TechCrunch. "Facebook decided to end support for the app, which hasn't been updated in some time, because people weren't using it." From the report: Moments, which first launched in 2015, has seen some competition from other Facebook products recently, which might have led to its demise. For instance, Facebook built out its Stories feature, which includes a direct sharing option. That option, while designed for one-offs and not whole albums, did allow users to bypass the Moments app entirely in order to privately send photos with a select friend or friends. Users also have the option to share any of their photos from the app as Albums on Facebook. If someone downloads the app to an Album, the privacy setting will default to "Only Me" but a user always has the option to share it with friends. Facebook says it will continue to incorporate options for saving memories within the Facebook app, as well. "We're ending support for the Moments app, which we originally launched as a place for people to save their photos. We know the photos people share are important to them so we will continue offering ways to save memories within the Facebook app," Rushabh Doshi, director of product management said in a statement. If you're a Moments user, you should see a message warning you about the app's demise. You can either export your photos from any device, or create a private album on your Facebook account to retrieve your photos.

41 comments

  1. Fuck Facebook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2

    Stop using it. Let them shut it all down.

    1. Re: Fuck Facebook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I just deactivated Facebook. I kind of am forced to still use messenger to talk to the people I know but I don't like that.

    2. Re:Fuck Facebook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      +1 can't agree more with you.

    3. Re: Fuck Facebook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, no you're not. Stop using it. Fuck, install Signal already.

    4. Re:Fuck Facebook by coastwalker · · Score: 1

      Indeed, Facebook should be broken up into firewalled entities with a market cap of ten million dollars. Facebook is possibly a greater threat to humanity than climate change.

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    5. Re: Fuck Facebook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      How do you get them to install signal?

    6. Re: Fuck Facebook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      By telling them or doing it for them. You're the IT geek, if you're here, so do your damned job already.

      Yes, it is up to each of us, you and I and everyone else here, to push for rational, privacy-preserving choices and education.

      Difficult? Yes, but that's your special power as a citizen is to help your society in this one particular area. Tough noodles.

    7. Re: Fuck Facebook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Same AC, I just wanted to elaborate. See, all you need to do is sell it as a drop-in replacement for their existing texting app. Which it is. And it works identically.

      That's the part that makes it an easy sell. The bit about security (nobody can ever read your messages ever and you don't have to do anything special now--transparent encryption is GOOD) is the icing on the cake of the sell.

    8. Re: Fuck Facebook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Signal apparently requires a smartphone and a phone number, so what will you do when one of these is missing?
      Can I sign up with an Android VM on Virtualbox and a dumbphone, or do I need to sign up for a SIP account (1 euro per month) and set up the Android VM to use that?
      If I lose my phone number (perhaps intentionally, e.g. cancel service) do I lose my Signal account?

      These are questions that need answers.
      I have never needed to use IM tied to phone numbers, because in my country calls and SMS are cheaper than mobile Internet (or, I'm not a traveler and I don't have family in North Africa so I don't have to bypass fees to communicate with foreign countries)

    9. Re:Fuck Facebook by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      With the difference that every single one actually DOES have the power to make the world a better place when it comes to Facebook.

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    10. Re: Fuck Facebook by spire3661 · · Score: 1

      IT Geeks are essentially apostates now. We have been kicked out of the temple.

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  2. Re: My Favorite Moment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    My favorite moment was when all the establishment candidates got btfo by the one man they collectively labeled as a joke, despite each spending millions of dollars.

  3. The moment I close my FB account by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    is coming soon.

  4. Bad Harvest Data Crop Yield by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 1

    Oh, they're probably shutting it down because they cannot collect with it.

    Collecting any user data is the sole incentive behind anything that Facebook offers.

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    1. Re:Bad Harvest Data Crop Yield by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      When you're a tech illiterate you take what you're given, and the only reason you get to post on the internet at all is the value of your meta-data.

      If the value of your meta-data drops for any reason services (along with your data) will disappear.

    2. Re:Bad Harvest Data Crop Yield by thomn8r · · Score: 1

      If the value of your meta-data drops for any reason services (along with your data) will disappear.

      I wish I had mod points

    3. Re:Bad Harvest Data Crop Yield by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This moment is the first time I've even heard about this feature anyway.

  5. Darn it! by Misagon · · Score: 4, Funny

    I first read "Facebook Is Shutting Down in Moments".

    So much for getting my hopes up ...

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    1. Re:Darn it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I first read "Facebook Is Shutting Down in Moments".

      So much for getting my hopes up ...

      Any moment now... just like the year of Linux on the Desktop!

  6. Nothing of value was lost. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Nt

  7. There isn't anything "private" on Facebook by ffkom · · Score: 1

    Facebook shared even photos and chat dialogues explicitly not intended for publication with other companies like Amazon, Microsoft etc. - only fools believe Facebook does not make use of their data just as they please.

  8. COME WITH MEEE, LESBIAN SEAGULLL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    use proxy while create disposable email account with creds of Wark Suckaturd, change Facebook acct email address to point to it, ask to subscribe to everything possible that Facebook has to offer, press forward address option on disposable email address to point at Facebook webmaster email address.. Go on vacation but intermittently login through a proxy to disposable email address to make it look interactive. Results?

  9. I read : Facebook is shutting down in moments by thesjaakspoiler · · Score: 1

    Was getting ready for the world to be thrown in chaos.

  10. Re:My Favorite Moment is yet to come - Trump@ADX by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Unless his daughter was 15.

  11. Cancelling a service--very original! by TuballoyThunder · · Score: 1

    I know Facebook has lost some traction and they feel the need to copy their competitors, but you would think they could do some better than copying Google's penchant for cancelling services.

  12. Good first step by Rick+Schumann · · Score: 1

    Now shut down the rest of it, and burn it all to cinders.

    1. Re:Good first step by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Now shut down the rest of it, and burn it all to cinders.

      C3PO: *Screaming* Shut it down.. shut it all down...

  13. All those moments will be lost in time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Like tears in rain.

  14. The headline is too long by Opportunist · · Score: 1

    By exactly one word. Without moments, it would have been perfect.

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  15. "people weren't using it" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If people weren't using it, why is it newsworthy that it is being shut down?

  16. IMPERSONATING me AGAIN? apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    MacOS model's NOT done yet so you can STOP now as you IMPERSONATE me here on /. nigh constantly, ok? Good!

    Proof portfilter err = stopped by my work https://news.slashdot.org/comm...

    * IMITATING me as you do proves you WISH you were ME though!

    APK

    P.S.=> Hopefully, this 'sinks in' to your DULL BRAIN @ last, finally (for the 100th time now)... apk

  17. You olds still use FB? by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 1

    How quaint.

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    1. Re:You olds still use FB? by cordovaCon83 · · Score: 1

      I tried Snapchat. I cried at the lack of any sort of sanity the UI had. Now my buddy showed me his Reddit app, that looked clean. Twitter also presents a UI that I can dig. As near as I can tell, the main draw of the Snapchat was that it opens up to a mirror of the user - what narcissist could resist?

      All things considered, I'm getting old and retiring to LiveJournal. I will create a virtual lawn and tell children to not stand on it. Or click on it. Whatever. You can see the senility is already taking hold.

    2. Re:You olds still use FB? by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 1

      Russia appreciates your LiveJournal nod.

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    3. Re:You olds still use FB? by cordovaCon83 · · Score: 1

      Send me a Comrade Request on FB next time you login.