Facebook Messenger

[MYstIC G]

Seems that Facebook still wants to find a real purpose in life so its going to copy RIM's Blackberry Messenger

https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=10150249543542131

It doesn't appear to be UK store for iPhone yet but I'm sure it'll turn up eventually.

What do you guys think?

 

[Ch3tan]

They clearly saw how popular BBM is with the yoots of London and want a piece of that pie!

 

[Ch3tan]

Especially the location sharing feature... what better way to tell your boys where your are looting.

 

[Zenith.UK]

Not happy at the way it hooks into your phone contacts.
That means it's going to have a data trail for people who don't use Facebook. In other words Facebook could have personal data referring to me and I have no say in it.
Facebook gets creative with mobile phone data harvesting app ? The Register

I choose not to use Facebook partly because I dislike the "friends, friends, must add more friends" attitude, and partly because they keep changing their privacy policy and settings.
I consent to let Google mine my data in return for using Android, Gmaps, Gmail etc. It's a trade-off. I get usable software free of charge, they get some data for their aggregate profiling. I don't see any adverts though, I've got them blocked with a custom HOSTS file.

 

[Billargh]

Sod that