Introducing Facebook Shops

Post by QuixoticQuibit » Wed, May 20, 2020, 8:22 AM UTC

graham_paul wrote: post #94

dvduval wrote: post #61

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I don't trust Facebook, but I use it. I don't spend money on Facebook. I don't intend to have a financial relationship with Facebook. There certainly are some benefits of using Facebook for certain purposes.

> I don't intend to have a financial relationship with Facebook. You wish it was that way but you do have one. An increasing number of businesses submit their financial data to Facebook and Facebook uses that data to track your offline activities. Few months ago they made some of this info available to you.

Post by Kiro » Wed, May 20, 2020, 8:23 AM UTC

einpoklum wrote: post #133

TheLastMan wrote: post #112

I don't need to bother reading dystopian sci-fi anymore, it's all happening around me.

One of the frightening things is when you notice that, as society becomes more dystopian (e.g. more totalitarian, more extremely unequal in the division of wealth etc.), there doesn't develop the strong awareness that it _is_ dystopian. It that the sense of what's normal and acceptable degrades. At best you get this weak sense of a general malaise.

Post by tixocloud » Wed, May 20, 2020, 8:45 AM UTC

vasco wrote: post #125

richardbrevig wrote: post #113

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> 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.

Post by andrejguran » Wed, May 20, 2020, 8:51 AM UTC

hnick wrote: post #189

saadalem wrote: post #117

Small businesses operated either individually or by less than 10 people. A bunch of customers buy products/services from these businesses. So they need a better way to: Engage with their customers Sell and manage product/service deliveries Target specific customer audience Show products/services availability Whatsapp could be the right solution not facebook apps. Also a combination of Yelp and Facebook/Whatsapp could…

I thought I heard about Shopify doing something like this, an aggregator for stores using Shopify, but apparently I misremembered. As someone who works with such a small business the main problem is finding customers who are a good match as you say. But if you fix it for everyone, then you're back to a crowded market and it'll be hard to stand out yet again. Instead of SEO and marketing you will optimise to whatever…

Post by 72deluxe » Wed, May 20, 2020, 9:05 AM UTC

oblio wrote: post #198

phreack wrote: post #184

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I have always thought about what it would take for Whatsapp to lose their place as the dominant chat app and you finally nailed it. If I ever start getting ads or requests for reviews or anything remotely related to someone selling something to me, as a personal message because of automated Facebook tools, I'd get myself and everyone I know off the platform in a matter of seconds. On the other hand, for information r…

> I have always thought about what it would take for Whatsapp to lose their place as the dominant chat app and you finally nailed it. Unfortunately, that's not how these things work. I don't know of any mainstream platform that died because of ads. You have to keep in mind the fact that the average person on this site has a total different attitude to technology and its warts than most other people.