Facebook’s third act: Mark Zuckerberg announces his firm’s next business model

There are so many grains of salt for this to be taken with and the track record of Facebook and Zucky makes me quite skeptical that anything concrete will come from this announcement.

Also, I feel like this may be a dupe?

"privacy-focused" until governments subpoena messages from the world's largest and most active digital network. or until advertisers demand more knobs for their retargeting. or until zuckerberg changes the company priority yet again and sweeps this under the rug.

if i were any more skeptical it would underflow into unbridled hope.

> The apps will be integrated, he said, and messages sent through

> them encrypted end-to-end, so that even Facebook cannot read them.

Why do I have difficulty believing that? Maybe Zukerberg meant Facebook would always be one end of the end-to-end, and the reporter _assumed_ that Facebook cannot read the messages.

Sorry to be skeptical about this. But I just am.

From a product perspective I think this is the right move. Aside from data privacy concerns, a lot of the critism of Facebook as a product seems to be due to it's global nature -- how your feed is mixed with Grandma posting conspiracy memes and your high school acquaintance talking about how her multilevel marketing scheme is amazing.

Many people say they only use Facebook to keep in touch with certain folks and for the event planning capabilities. If Facebook can successfully integrate the three apps and make Facebook seem more like a neighborhood coffee shop than a global forum I could see it really fueling growth and engagement.

Yeah well, this only makes me redouble my efforts to get rid of whats-app. If only idiotic managers would stop making pointless job related whats-app groups for everything...