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by kodablah 2998 days ago
> I think many people that are moving away from Facebook move away from social networks in general [...] If I need to communicate with friends I do this "directly" via WhatsApp or email.

I'd like to see the line disappear and I'd like to see WhatsApp or email be considered social networking. I think a well built app can have both of those features in addition to the feed+post+comment style of Facebook. From the user perspective, what are all these communication mediums but just "place" configuration?

Edit: here're some early scratch grpc services I have been toying with to abstract different communication forms: https://github.com/cretz/yukup/tree/6793fb2b281e4ea7cda1fe5b...

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Seriously, if Snapchat is considered a social network, IRC/email/WhatsApp/iMessage/Hangouts/SMS is a social network too.
Yeah, I'm sure Facebook could build WhatsApp into a trustworthy social networking platform.