[hericium]

Does Facebook, as a product, even has userbase for this?

I find it weird that they used this branding. For some time now, FB has the "old people social media" label. Also would they create a new brand (or MetaPay or whatever), some people might not connect it to Zuck's trash mentality, morality and overall creepiness.

I wouldn't be surprised if folks working at Meta consider themselves the good guys, like Google cultists do. But I was under the impression that FB->Meta name change was due to public's completely trashed opinion on Facebook.

[fourseventy]

Ya they only have billions of users, probably not a big enough userbase to support this feature /s

[slopirate]

I think you need to step outside of your bubble.

More than half the population of Earth logged into a FB product at least once last month. They don't use it out of love or pity for Zuckerberg. They use it because they fucking love to.

[sdoering]

And even if they don't love it they use it because they get subjective value out of that usage as these people have lots of contacts (or maybe groups) there.

I don't use FB anymore. For more than two years now. But I still keep the account as I have exactly one use case (just anecdata):

There are some very good groups on Facebook for genealogy. Here I can get help when I get stuck again.

So if I continue again with the genealogy efforts I will certainly post there again from time to time.

There are few to no comparable places on the net where I could find the appropriate help.

[cookie_monsta]

> They use it because they fucking love to.

As someone who has resigned themself to using at least 2 FB products because I can't convince my contacts to switch because the ones who care can't convince their contacts to switch (and so on) I can tell you that we do not fucking love these products. We tolerate them with misgivings, the same way we feel when we put petrol in our cars or eat fast food

[hericium]

Are you referring to FB as a product or company? I have no love for Facebook nor other products of its owner, Meta, but I am not surprised that the company introduces payments.

Just that they chose to brand it as an attachment to the Facebook product. "Meta" currently operates with moral tabula rasa when it is not referred to as "FB/Meta". Facebook - in both meanings - seems to be disgraced. I was under the impression that the name change was, among other reasons, due to low reputation.

> I think you need to step outside of your bubble.

The issue with living in a bubble is a somewhat distorted reality. I am aware of this and _trying_ not to be shortsighted. I feel otherwise quite comfortable in my moral bubble. Often I have to go out of my way to achieve something, but for me life is about agreeing with self not about making everything easy.

[hericium]

> More than half the population of Earth logged into a FB product at least once last month.

(from parent's parent)

My repeated product/company question was not a mistake. I cannot find any source placing the number of Facebook (product/platform) users anywhere close to "half the population of Earth".

The number of Facebook and Instagram users combined (and WhatsApp even boosts this number) seems more suiting but under the assumption that there are no duplicate users logging to more platforms at least once monthly.

> They use it because they fucking love to.

Since I have already mixed user base and morality topics when pointing out brand choice, I'll allow myself to add: same with heroine users.

[hyperzeit]

But a login is not the same as a truly active user/customer. At least in my bubble, people log in/open the app out of FOMO, check if there is anything new, most likely find nothing intriguing, and log out/close the app again. Rinse and repeat every week.

[jdrc]

dont have to love it, but yeah they have an account. i have an account and i would use it for payments (fb has a ton of cash backing to be considered reliable , and banks absolutely need as much competition as possible).

[qualudeheart]

This would fit in nicely with the FB marketplace and help it become more like WeChat. I have family that uses WeChat. In China it`s an all in one app. The payment features are very convenient.