Facebook is now merging instagram and messenger chats into one service

https://9to5mac.com/2020/08/15/facebook-is-now-merging-instagram-and-messenger-chats-into-one-service/

by speedyrobot • 6 years ago

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photoGrant• 6 years ago

This ruins Instagram for me entirely. The separation is part of what I enjoyed and needed.

This just makes me want to leave both platforms, not embrace them as one.

Traster• 6 years ago

They aren't doing this for users. They're doing this so that they can stand in front of Congress and say "Well actually Facebook and Instagram aren't two separate things, they're really just 1 thing, so it's impossible for you to break us up into 2 companies, sorry!"

switch11• 6 years ago

This is very true

what they fear most is

Instagram and Whatsapp getting split up from Facebook

And then it becoming a contest of

FB vs Instagram Vs Whatsapp

If they integrate them in, then they get two good side effects (the real intended effectS) in addition to 'easier for users'

A) Very hard to split it up, as it 'breaks the experience for the users

B) After the split the three companies are FORCED TO WORK TOGETHER

it becomes three companies sharing three shared products

Another fact that has to be considered is

A lot of Instagram's growth was done leveraging what was learnt at Facebook and using Facebook users

Now you get the danger that

The three companies (if split - FB, Instagram, Whatsapp) could feed and grow competitors to each other

By having them so interconnected, it also prevents one company to 'build in' a possible competitor to another and grow it quickly

kevincox• 6 years ago

Personally I'm a huge fan. Instagram has never been for me. But it appears to be becoming a relatively popular IM tool. I thought I was going to have to install it on my phone at some point to communicate with friends but this lets me stick with the same one facebook app that I have been living with for years.

I can't wait until I can drop WhatsApp too.

I mean ideally people would start using something open like Matrix or even XMPP but I'll still take wins when I can get them. The less separate networks the better as far as I am concerned.

rolandtshen• 6 years ago

Big fan of this, hoping they integrate WhatsApp and its end to end encryption to this joint project soon as well

seelion• 6 years ago

Thanks, I hate it

beatrobot• 6 years ago

I think it's time to unlink my fb account from instagram. I really don't want the chats merged.

Facebook is now merging instagram and messenger chats into one service

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