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Sir, you're mistaken. At best facebook could've seen the calls Snapchat was using for friend matching but they weren't dependent as a company on facebook's infrastructure which is what your post is implying.

Snapchat should be concerned, but not because by use of facebook's apis gave facebook the valuable insight into some interesting user behavior.

No, they saw it was a cool app that was doing well in the store. They have distribution of over 800M people.... "hey, remember poking?... yeah that old feature we used to have... yeah... lets just make a snapchat clone and call it poke." That conversation could've happened over lunch or at a hackathon and it goes straight to production.

Guy's there is very little honor in the realm of ideas rightnow. Facebook is throwing punches just like everyone else.