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Re: Introducing Facebook Shops

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Post by chillacy »

saltedonion wrote: post #102
carlinmack wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you know about Facebook Watch, their streaming service with real original TV shows? Their switch from 'just' a social network was years and years ago

Didn’t know they had original TV shows, but I thought at least they will build social features into Watch. Shopping on the other hand, is a private and individualistic activity. I feel this is far removed from their core mission.

> is a private and individualistic activity

Some people go to malls as a social activity. Others like to read product reviews by people (sometimes well known bloggers), or watch youtube videos. Sometimes people even ask their friends for product recommendations. Shopping is to some a very social thing.

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Post by vasco »

richardbrevig wrote: post #113
koolba wrote: post #72

This is long overdue. I bet they’re working on a PayPal competitor and eventually their own in-house data driven credit system. If you think you were being tracked across every mouse hover and scroll now, imagine what it’ll look like when there’s this much on the line.

> I bet they're working on a PayPal competitor... They've allowed money transfer through Messenger for sometime now. The UX is probably the best I've had. I prefer sending money that way because it's through the debit card (easy set up), free, and instant.

In Europe at least they've rolled this back from the only 2 countries they tested it in (UK and France). You can still do donations to organizations in most countries, but no p2p money transfers.

Re: Introducing Facebook Shops

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Post by chillacy »

foobar_ wrote: post #73
ancarda wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

America isn't a totalitarian regime though. Evidence of racism isn't relevant for that definition - it's a label that applies based on government structure.

Totalitarian to who ... that's the question. America is fairly totalitarian to Mexicans, Native Indians to a very huge degree and to black people on a minor degree. In the same vein China is totalitarian to people who are not Han-Chinese. A majority of the Chinese live perfectly reasonable and modern lives.

You don't get a "free political speech" pass even if you identify/pass as Han Chinese. Certainly you don't get treated as badly, but the restrictions on speech are still real.

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Post by mikestew »

dmix wrote: post #88
mikestew wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you replying to me, or just hijacking to make a general point? Because FB gets blocked at DNS at my house, I could have saved you some typing on "values".

I was commenting in support of not using FB, which is supporting what you're saying...

Gotcha, thanks for the clarification (and the stealth edit ;-). I'd delete my original question if it wouldn't leave your comment dangling.

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Post by paxys »

jameslevy wrote: post #2

"We’re also working more closely with partners like Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce..." Is Facebook Shops not a direct competitor to Shopify? Or is this just "embrace, extend, and extinguish"?

Nowadays it's more "embrace, extend, and acquire"

Re: Introducing Facebook Shops

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Post by stephenr »

scarface74 wrote: post #89
stephenr wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Minority of what exactly? As pointed out downthread, a lot more people on earth don’t have FB than do. I’d also wager plenty of people who’ve stopped using it still technically “have” an account but never use it. So how do you define that “the majority” use Facebook?

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/ First subtract China where it isn't available and you're down to a possible market of 6.35 Billion. But then start subtracting the number of children in the world, the number too poor to spend any money on anything FB would be selling or advertising and random other places where it might be blocked.

That’s a lot of words to say “the majority of Facebook users are using Facebook”.

That you just ignore the country with the largest population because Facebook doesn’t operate there is a big tell.

Also, why would you assume the kind of products people might sell and thus their pricing? I’ve seen (and bought!) stuff online for ~ 11THB. 35 US cents.

You can say a lot of people use Facebook and that’s fine. But if you’re going to say “the majority of people” you really need to define which people you’re talking about.

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