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Introducing Poke for Mobile

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Re: Introducing Poke for Mobile

#11

Post by greenwalls »

"Each message expires after a specific time you've set, either 1, 3, 5 or 10 seconds. When time runs out, the message disappears from the app."

Sure it disappears from the app, but the message probably stays on Facebook's servers for the rest of your life. Then someday in the future Facebook will probably change their privacy settings suddenly (on purpose or accidentally) and all your messages will appear on your timeline for everyone to see.

Re: Introducing Poke for Mobile

#12

Post by kamjam »

rjvir wrote: post #3
3825 wrote: post #2

Is this different from FaceBook Messenger? Looks like some duplication of functionality. Are you going to pull Messenger from the market?

The main difference here is that you can set messages to expire after a certain time interval - a feature that became massively popular with SnapChat.

So happens if the user you sent the message to hasn't seen it within that timeframe? (since FB does offline message)

Re: Introducing Poke for Mobile

#14

Post by duaneb »

rjvir wrote: post #3
3825 wrote: post #2

Is this different from FaceBook Messenger? Looks like some duplication of functionality. Are you going to pull Messenger from the market?

The main difference here is that you can set messages to expire after a certain time interval - a feature that became massively popular with SnapChat.

What is the purpose of that? i can't think of a single use aside from, say, sexting.

Re: Introducing Poke for Mobile

#16

Post by cmelbye »

duaneb wrote: post #14
rjvir wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The main difference here is that you can set messages to expire after a certain time interval - a feature that became massively popular with SnapChat.

What is the purpose of that? i can't think of a single use aside from, say, sexting.

It's for fun, obviously, not everything has to have a utilitarian purpose... People take compromising photos, make ugly faces, etc., with the knowledge that the photo will only be seen for 3 seconds.

Re: Introducing Poke for Mobile

#17

Post by creativityland »

greenwalls wrote: post #11

"Each message expires after a specific time you've set, either 1, 3, 5 or 10 seconds. When time runs out, the message disappears from the app." Sure it disappears from the app, but the message probably stays on Facebook's servers for the rest of your life. Then someday in the future Facebook will probably change their privacy settings suddenly (on purpose or accidentally) and all your messages will appear on your tim…

The younger kids won't switch from snapchat to this and they seem to be the audience for this kind of feature.

Re: Introducing Poke for Mobile

#19

Post by patrickod »

greenwalls wrote: post #11

"Each message expires after a specific time you've set, either 1, 3, 5 or 10 seconds. When time runs out, the message disappears from the app." Sure it disappears from the app, but the message probably stays on Facebook's servers for the rest of your life. Then someday in the future Facebook will probably change their privacy settings suddenly (on purpose or accidentally) and all your messages will appear on your tim…

I thought it was proven that previous reports of "private messages" showing up on poeples' Timelines were false and were down to user confusion?

Re: Introducing Poke for Mobile

#20

Post by RandallBrown »

kamjam wrote: post #12
rjvir wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The main difference here is that you can set messages to expire after a certain time interval - a feature that became massively popular with SnapChat.

So happens if the user you sent the message to hasn't seen it within that timeframe? (since FB does offline message)

The timeout doesn't start until the user sees the message (at least that's how Snapchat works)
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