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Facebook buys WhatsApp - hundreds of thousands creeped out, go to Telegram app. Facebook buys Oculus Rift, Minecraft creator cancels talks, creeped out. Feels
by mantrax3 12y ago
Facebook buys WhatsApp - hundreds of thousands creeped out, go to Telegram app.
Facebook buys Oculus Rift, Minecraft creator cancels talks, creeped out.
Feels like that Facebook brand has taken a hit or two with all the privacy violations, huh?
- ArcticCelt 12y agoFacebook is modern times AOL, negatively contaminating everything they buy.
- asdfologist 12y agoWhatsApp lost hundreds of thousands of users out of 450 million. Yeah, I bet they're losing sleep every night over that 0.1%.
- john2x 12y agoStill, that's hundreds of thousands the competition didn't have.
- asdfologist 12y agoCrushing. Their competitors now must have enough extra revenue to buy an expensive couch.
- mantrax3 12y agoI find this particular form of cynicism entertaining. But this is not about the particular number of users lost. It's about Facebook's brand. There are many things Facebook might want to do, but it can't, because people don't trust them, and their every movie is a potential cause for outrage. No company wants to be left with the only alternative of buying their way into success, and as you see this doesn't work quite smooth, either.
- mercer 12y agoI'm amazed by the fact that most of my non-geeky friends are wary of Facebook. Most of them still use the platform (as do I), but a bunch of them already switched to Telegram, and a lot of them have become much more careful about how they use Facebook. These are people who don't really follow developments in the tech sector and use computers as 'iPads with a mouse and keyboard'. The ones who generally shrug at revelations of surveillance and the dangers that come with too much of it. It will be interesting to see what kind of impact this has on Facebook long-term, if any.