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The catch is a pretty big deal, and by deal I mean a deal breaker for me. Why do I have to share something back with someone in order to see what they've shared back at me? I understand it's great for engagement but who would use this over Snapchat or Instagram.
HackerNews guys & gals are probably not the audience of the app, but the audience Facebook's aiming at will love it.
This is minimalism gone too far.
Seems like they're trying to create more interaction and it sounds like it would be fun...for the first couple of times. Who really wants to go out of their way to make a new video or photo to see something? We've all become accustomed to the instant gratification that the internet offers, why would we suddenly opt in for a slower experience? Or it will turn into people sharing the same generic useless video / pictur…
I have yet to find out if the videos are temporary (i hope so)
The interesting thing about this app is that it's an experiment: viral success of social applications appears to be a hit or miss sort of thing, so why not throw many things at the wall and see what sticks á la Paper, Home, Messenger, or buy something already big á la Instagram or Snapchat.
One benefit of this strategy is that it raises barriers to entry for your competitors: the more modes of social interaction you offer, the fewer opportunities for your competitors to chip away at your empire, and the more enticing your properties become to advertisers.
What a bad reason to create a product. People don't want to respond to your messages so your create a way to try to force them to respond. Realistically they probably won't care enough to reply and now won't see your messages at all.
[1] http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/17/facebook-releases-s...
nginx/1.6.0
(edit: it works now. But it didn't 15 minutes ago)
This underscores what appears to be an interesting strategic move by Facebook: build an ecosystem of applications, which in turn encourages people to use their other products. In turn, this provides continued competition against Twitter, Tumblr, etc. The interesting thing about this app is that it's an experiment: viral success of social applications appears to be a hit or miss sort of thing, so why not throw many th…
And that's after Facebook's previous attempt to attack Snapchat, Poke, failed miserably.
"A new way to share photos and videos"
And they don't even seem to have a monetization strategy for it.