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Re: Introducing Hello

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Post by Spearchucker »

MichaelGG wrote: post #42
bentcorner wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have never needed to block a call, so I'm not the customer here. I'm curious what demographic uses call blocking so much that FB wants to advertise directly to them. Is it a problem that younger people face, or something that happens in other countries?

Buy an SSL certificate. Enjoy Comodo calling you 3 times a week, sometimes waking you up, to try to sell security. Even after telling them to stop. (Yeah, I should take it up with the FCC...) Even more fun: point out Comodo's lapses as a CA and say they're the last CA you'd ever deal with. Then the rep smoothly segues into pitching antivirus/"security" software.

Surprised that you give them your real number. Any data I provide online is only ever enough for the specific service I want to function. The rest is invented. Fiction. Myth.

Re: Introducing Hello

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Post by ori_b »

maxk42 wrote: post #35
ori_b wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nobody is forcing this on anyone. If you find it useful, install it. If you don't, then don't.

But if I don't install it then the people I call still get my information without my knowledge, don't they?

Thereis no new information being made public. Anything that can be seen through this can be seen through a a web browser already.

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Post by deepuj »

hobarrera wrote: post #46
tegeek wrote: post #15

Here in Sweden we use TrueCaller [1] which is almost the same as FB Hello. It is available for Android, iOS, and WP. And pretty much cover the entire world. It will be interesting to see how TrueCaller can compete with FB Hello. 1. http://www.truecaller.com/

I don't know where their data comes from, but after putting my number, all I get is the city it's in (which the area code makes obvious anyway).

When you install it, it takes data from your address book. That's how it gathers data.

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Post by dennisnedry »

wiremine wrote: post #67
taneem wrote: post #12

I think the biggest challenge to this is Facebook itself (and other messaging/social apps). How many millennials make phone calls frequently to more than 5-10 close people any more? Everyone just uses messaging or social apps to stay in touch. I don't need this to give me social context to my wife or my parents etc. calling me. The value of this is really to people that are not that close, where Facebook can surface…

Two thoughts: a. Regarding millennials: If they can younger users to use their dialer in 2015, they might stay with them for life. b. The average age for facebook is 40.5 [1]. I'm a Gen Xer myself, and I'm 50/50 with calls vs. messaging. I order pizza, call my mechanic, etc. all via the phone. [1] http://smallbusiness.chron.com/breakdown-facebook-users-age-...

Those numbers are from 2 years ago. I'd like to know what they are as of March 2015.

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Post by nabaraz »

jmgao wrote: post #40
nabaraz wrote: post #37

So far we have: - Facebook (networking) - Messenger (messaging) - Hello (calls and callerID) Facebook should just fork Android, integrate all of these and release their own build.

They pretty much tried that, and it failed miserably.

I thought they only created an app(launcher) called 'Facebook Home'. Did they ever fork android like Fire OS and Firefox OS?

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Post by Spoom »

Remember when LinkedIn wanted to intercept your email (and also add "helpful stuff" to it)? It's that, but Facebook and for phone calls.

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Post by sososoko »

lern_too_spel wrote: post #68

Strange that this is coming to Android first, given that most Android devices have this feature built in, making this app nearly useless. http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/11/04/google-does-caller-i...

I dont have that feature on my device, or rather i cant see it.

I think FB is better placed to do this, given that they have the Phone books of everyone who has the Facebook app and Whatsapp.

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Post by k-mcgrady »

dennisnedry wrote: post #75
wiremine wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Two thoughts: a. Regarding millennials: If they can younger users to use their dialer in 2015, they might stay with them for life. b. The average age for facebook is 40.5 [1]. I'm a Gen Xer myself, and I'm 50/50 with calls vs. messaging. I order pizza, call my mechanic, etc. all via the phone. [1] http://smallbusiness.chron.com/breakdown-facebook-users-age-...

Those numbers are from 2 years ago. I'd like to know what they are as of March 2015.

Maybe even more skewed towards older folks as younger ones spend more time on Snapchat et al.

Re: Introducing Hello

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Post by k-mcgrady »

smackfu wrote: post #50

In my circle, using Facebook to connect through anything other than Facebook itself seems futile. No one has emails or phone numbers posted, even for friends. So this app seems like it would basically do nothing.

>> "So this app seems like it would basically do nothing."

For you. Today I had to email someone. I looked through my address book and because I'd previously add their name/number Facebook had retrieved their email (which I didn't yet have) through their profile and put it right in my address book. This happens quite often for me.

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