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Facebook is changing – promise
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Quote:Lately, Mark Zuckerberg appeared a little shaken. Millions of data sets got lost and people suspected Facebook had been used to shape public opinion - oh, and especially younger users flocked to Snapchat, Instagram and Telegram. While the still steady flow of ad revenue certainly eased the pain, it was enough to trigger a change in thinking. Not only will Facebook receive a design overhaul, but it will focus on different content and provide a payment method. And most importantly: the private spheres and data of its users will be better protected. At a recent conference, Zuckerberg briefly chuckled over the term "private" but continued to make one promise after the other afterwards.

Quote:This structure has been paramount to the huge success of Facebook. It's based on the premise that humans like to share stories that have a personal impact, either emotionally or information-wise. In the spur of the moment, many don't care very much about who exactly gets to see their posts and either make them public straight away or spread them among an often humongous list of friends. This, more or less, personal content was then complemented with messages from group subscriptions. It was the blend of voyeurism, exhibitionism and chit-chat that has driven the success of Facebook for so many years. And as a bonus, Facebook got hold of billions of data sets and turned them into detailed customer profiles for personalized ads. Facebook Messenger on the other hand has been treated as an orphan most of the time - and that's about to change! “We need a digital equivalent of the living room that is just as built out with all of the different ways we want to interact privately with messaging, small groups, sharing where your content doesn’t stick around forever, simple and secure payments, private ways to share your location and over time lots of different ways to interact privately” said Zuckerberg, earning a murmur from the crowd. This move would mean a convergence towards popular messenger apps.

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Thanks for the article Tarek.
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