Why would anybody want this versus existing alternatives? OK, the USP of sending money to your Facebook friends... well, if they're my friends, we've been sending money to each other for years when splitting bills etc. It's a solved problem.
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Re: Facebook Pay
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems to be the reason. In Brazil, everyone knows what Facebook is. Very, very, very few people would know what is Meta. How ironic is it that you need to move from a brand name to another because you have bad reputation, but still have to use the old name because even with bad reputation, it's still more trustable to handle money than your no-reputation new brand?
Brazil has WhatsApp pay
Hmm, I hadn't realized it was branded differently in Brazil. Still seems to align with the same idea, since WhatsApp brand recognition is at least on par with Facebook in Brazil(also, I believe most people are aware that WhatsApp is made by FB, but I guess very few recognize Meta as of now).
Re: Facebook Pay
#93The company, which hasn't been able to figure out the UI hell of the core product for more than a decade now must never be trusted with processing payments. Especially when you know where the data will end up, what will happen to it next and how the company makes money (98.5% from targeted ads)
I'm confident the UI for their customers works great. Problem is you're not the customer.
It’s really not. I’ve managed Facebook and Instagram ads for a non-profit educational group, sending Meta thousands of dollars for ad campaigns, and the UI for purchasing ads is poor, by the metric of whether the software “just works.”
There are separate webpages for creating a Facebook ad campaign (Ads Manager is one, plus there is a separate option with less features; I believe this is the Boosted posts function). The Ads Manager also displays a popup that the software might not work fi you have an ad-blocker enabled. For my devices, it’s slow and buggy in any browser except for Chrome.
The UI for managing Pages as a business is also poor. In the past (with previous Facebook Q&A forum posts documenting this), Facebook would automatically convert text posts by a Facebook page into a job listing, without asking for confirmation (!), making it unintuitive to undo. Separately, it also has limited categories for Facebook events (there is no category for educational events; the closest is the “Home” category).
Facebook has also removed certain popular features in the past, such as initially hiding, and then removing the feature to Share a post with the feature to “Keep the original post” (so only the link is shared, but not the post text that accompanied it by the original poster). The feature was lost due to a Facebook redesign, which is baffling because this reduced the likelihood of Facebook users to share content.
Maybe it’s different for larger customers (though I suspect they use the same tools), but the poor UI is frankly ridiculous for paying advertisers. Perhaps it does make sense, though; their competitor is Google Search and Display ads, which also have user interface problems (e.g. refusing to let you publish an ad set you’re willing to pay for, with very minimal messaging as to where exactly the error is, prompting multiple forum posts by other users). It’s effectively a duopoly, as other social media advertising channels are far less effective (maybe not LinkedIn, though LinkedIn is pricier), and newspaper ads are far more pricey (with higher minimum ad spend) with lower reach.
Re: Facebook Pay
#94Off topic, but I really hate this trend of using animate-in transitions for _every_ _single_ _section_ of the page. Why I do always have to scroll into a half a window's worth of blank background before the content appears with some cutesy slide-in animation? I could perhaps forgive it if it was just badly implemented lazy-loading images but it also does this for simple section titles and body text as well. It ends u…
In this case there’s no value added, no. That’s okay in some cases, but the purpose of this page is to communicate the value of Facebook Pay, and this doesn’t really help. And it’s badly done too: kinda janky on some components and easing is weirdly inconsistent.
Visual stability is actually kinda underrated.
Re: Facebook Pay
#95This should have happened for a long time. Facebook's properties are the places where my friends naturally ask for money from me to help. Even with all the negativity I see here in other comments, this is the natural way for Facebook to grow, not trying to compete with the Federal Reserve.
> this is the natural way for Facebook to grow, not trying to compete with the Federal Reserve.
Yeah, but only the latter is likely to be able to push them into the too-big-to-fail category.
Re: Facebook Pay
#96I wonder if this relates to the huge earnings miss.
Seems unlikely, it takes quite a while to put something like this together.
Re: Facebook Pay
#97Off topic, but I really hate this trend of using animate-in transitions for _every_ _single_ _section_ of the page. Why I do always have to scroll into a half a window's worth of blank background before the content appears with some cutesy slide-in animation? I could perhaps forgive it if it was just badly implemented lazy-loading images but it also does this for simple section titles and body text as well. It ends u…
Dude, we are hype and cool and we have the power of JS and CSS transitions at our fingertips. Why should we sacrifice our amazing experience that all end-users love just to please some purist-wannabe power user who enjoys to read content without hindrances, delays and amazing visual effects based on carefully-calculated bezier curves by our best-of-class team?
Re: Facebook Pay
#98I've been waiting for this for 3 years.
After using Instagram a bunch, I found the targeted ads got pretty good: most were for things I was interested in, such as tech gadgets or crafts for my kids. However, clicking on an ad and buying something was so much higher friction than the rest of the mobile Instagram experience that I often just gave up.
Since then, I assumed FB must be working on some sort of payment service in order to complete the loop on the ad->purchase funnel.
Re: Facebook Pay
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Facebook had a multimillion dollar business (yes, million, not trillion, but this was solid) in the form of FB marketplace. That was the one part of FB that was super useful and if they hooked it up with a secure payment system that worked with these kinds of transactions it could have been amazing. Instead they squandered it on ads, as they always do. The platform is now unusable.
Is there any good alternative to FB MarketPlace these days? Craigslist is just too old fashioned and most people I know don't use it anymore.
Offerup is probably the only other alternative but the network effects of Craigslist and FB are hard to beat.
Re: Facebook Pay
#100Off topic, but I really hate this trend of using animate-in transitions for _every_ _single_ _section_ of the page. Why I do always have to scroll into a half a window's worth of blank background before the content appears with some cutesy slide-in animation? I could perhaps forgive it if it was just badly implemented lazy-loading images but it also does this for simple section titles and body text as well. It ends u…
I agree and would even go as far as to say that I don't like tying dynamic effects to scroll position at all. Those Apple sites are "cool", but they're hard to parse. If I want to find some piece of info again, it's not easy.
Really wish animations would go away for the most part. They make sites and tools take longer and force the user to pause between actions when they may not need to otherwise. If the animation contributes something, fine, but if the purpose of a site is to show off pictures and text, just leave the animations out of it.