[mattpavelle]

Many people here (myself included) are anti-FB due to privacy issues and then some, but I think this is pretty great.

The smart camera panning using facial recognition looks very useful. Right now I Facetime a lot with my iPad and will prop it up to chat with folks and often move around but then run back to come into the field of view. This solves that problem (for people who use Facebook and have a TV).

And Watch Party looks pretty great too. They've essentially taken a significant part of the "second screen" interaction and just embedded it in the primary screen. And it looks like they're doing it well. I can see this being a fun interaction.

[therobot24]

>> I can see this being a fun interaction.

Oh for sure, unfortunately, it's the Facebook label that makes this cool product toxic. Since the Facebook brand is synonymous with poor privacy practices (Firefox even has a 'facebook container' to help reduce tracking), I don't see how someone didn't think to market this under a different parent company and make it 'facebook compatible'.

[stunt]

That would become another press bomb in the future. They can’t keep that a secret forever.

[alexis_fr]

The “Whatsapp box”. The “Instagram Connect”. The “Zukerberg eye”. There are many names better than Facebook.