Facebook Is Said to Be Building a Product to Compete With Clubhouse (nytimes.com) 27
Facebook is building an audio chat product that is similar to the popular young app Clubhouse, The New York Times reported Wednesday, citing two people with knowledge of the matter, as the social network aims to expand into new forms of communication. From the report: Clubhouse, a social networking app, has gained buzz for letting people gather in audio chat rooms to talk about various topics. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, has been interested in audio communication forms, said the people with knowledge of the matter, and he appeared in the Clubhouse app on Sunday to chat about augmented and virtual reality. Facebook executives have ordered employees to create a similar product, said the people, who were not authorized to speak publicly. The product is in its earliest stages of development, they said. Facebook has a history of breaking into new technologies and chasing different mediums that have attracted users, especially if those audiences are young. Mr. Zuckerberg bought the photo-sharing site Instagram, the messaging app WhatsApp and the virtual reality company Oculus when all were small start-ups.
Maybe (Score:5, Insightful)
Maybe the reason it's popular is because it's not Facebook. That brand is tarnished and associated with old people and MAGA now.
Re:Maybe (Score:5, Insightful)
i thought it was associated with tracking you online, violating your privacy, and selling your data all comers.
Re:Maybe (Score:5, Insightful)
That too. They have a broad portfolio of shitty things to hate them for.
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Maybe the reason it's popular is because it's not Facebook. That brand is tarnished and associated with old people and MAGA now.
Is everything that's not Facebook popular because it's not Facebook? New trendy social media apps and sites are a dime a dozen, and they're still social media, even if they aren't Facebook. The only alternative to Facebook the world needs is less social media all around.
Re: Maybe (Score:2)
Old man shakes fist at cloud
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Old man shakes fist at cloud
In my defense, the cloud was on my lawn.
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The Facebook way: (Score:2)
blatantly copy, then destroy.
#breakUpFacebook
audit era of social networking (Score:1)
Insurrectionist MAGA Faggots (Score:1)
Before you plan another insurrection out in broad daylight on Clubhouse consider the following:
Trump is out of office, facing severe criminal exposure.
He is disgraced forever, having placed his faith in an insurrection let by uneducated racist trash like himself.
All you treason-cucks who followed Trump's call to insurrection have forever painted yourselves as disloyal traitors to the USA, and our constitutional, until now peaceful transfer of power.
Trump will live out the rest of his life in prison. Do you
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fuck you zuck (Score:3)
"Mr. Zuckerberg bought the photo-sharing site Instagram, the messaging app WhatsApp and the virtual reality company Oculus when all were small start-ups." - I see we're re-writing history today?
Re:fuck you zuck (Score:4, Interesting)
"Mr. Zuckerberg bought the photo-sharing site Instagram, the messaging app WhatsApp and the virtual reality company Oculus when all were small start-ups." - I see we're re-writing history today?
Indeed:
Instagram purchase price: $1 billion
Oculus purchase price: $2 billion
WhatsApp purchase price: $19 billion
Anything worth $billions I wouldn't exactly call 'small startup'
They are Cancer (Score:1)
Worst chat format (Score:4, Insightful)
Conference audio becomes unintelligible when two people are talking at once.
When you're in a crowded room, your ears use the different locations of the sound sources to help distinguish between sources. Conference apps lose that information, so people talking simultaneously all seem to be one source and you have to put far more effort into understanding someone.
Couple that with the social problem that many people don't have the patience to let someone else finish speaking, and you get a big mess.
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Beyond that VoIP has a bad garbage-in-garbage-out problem with audio and video devices. Now mix two g-i-g-o folks together, fun times.
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These things are working because people on it follow som airwave radio and have rigs with decent mics.
And acrtually on DMR ham radio repeaters network there's the concept of talkgroups that are a sort of chat room.
Of course even putting a CB station requires more effort than installing an app, and there isn't all that this hype on this.
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whathouse? (Score:2)
"Facebook Is Said to Be Building a Product to Compete With Clubhouse"
The fuck is "Clubhouse"?
"Clubhouse, a social networking app..."
Oh a social networking app, thanks that totally clears that up. So it's like 10,000 other apps, right?
I'll pass but don't let me hold you back.
I hated this (Score:1)
before, when it was personal phone chat rooms in the 80s. Everything old is new again, proving VCs and their money are always soon parted.