Posted on 03/14/2019 1:52:58 PM PDT by bitt
Facebook’s top executive ranks underwent another change on Thursday, with the loss of the company’s chief product officer and the head of its WhatsApp messaging service.
The departures follow two years of scandals for Facebook around data privacy and disinformation. The issues have buffeted the Silicon Valley company, causing internal turmoil and a redirection in strategy.
Last week, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive, announced that Facebook would shift away from public sharing of posts and focus on private conversations across the company’s messaging services — WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger. The decision, which involves knitting together three of the world’s largest digital communications services, was controversial internally and has upset some employees who were asked to work on the project, according to current and former employees who were not authorized to speak publicly.
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So they’re turning into the equivalent of the phone company.
What FB is, is far from over. As long as it remains bait for mindless fools, not much will change.
Here is what I think they are going to do.
Use WhatsApp to give access to friends with Instagram accounts and claim these communications are 100% secure.
They are NOT.
All the password linking is done on a WhatsApp server and thus the server knows what both passwords are.
FB can thus read any message you send.
They can also sell that information.
...Facebook would shift away from public sharing of posts and focus on private conversations across the company’s messaging services...
Facebook will be little more than a chat/text function which is available to most people through their cellular phones for free, mostly, as part of their service with their provider.
A small niche market for those without that service or without a cellular phone.
A Facebook status post is already fully customziable in terms of who can see it. What else would they do with it?
A large unregulated phone monopoly.
I like rhetorical questions. {;^)
The C_A could fill you in. It's their baby.
They are no fools. Time to cash in their options before the thing either implodes or gets broken up by the DOJ both of which I believe are long past due.
Correct
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