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If you took a moment to think of use cases other than your own, you would realize that there's a lot of us that ONLY use facebook messenger. I haven't checked my newsfeed in ages.

They had a good blog post about this, which gave a good explanation. Basically it said that some huge percentage of FB app use was messsanger, so why not optimise for that use case instead?

Because of this change it now takes 1-14 days for my to respond to a facebook message. I see no need to install a separate app when I'm already debating uninstalling facebook's app. And usually I'm not motivated to log into facebooks' website just to read and respond to the message. So they sit there until I finally get bored enough to do it. Granted, in all fairness, I probably get under 4 messages a month.

Not complaining, just sharing my experience.

While the TechCrunch article is a little off stating it's to save you an extra click Facebook has come out and said splitting it optimized the user experience for the majority of the messenger users. So while their statement is a little off the sentiment is accurate.

I very rarely post to Facebook but I do feel that I know who my data is shared with when I do. They seem to have stopped their ridiculous habit of resetting all my privacy settings to public now as well.

Like Google I imagine they do actually try to protect the data they have beyond what I explicitly share at least to the extent it's not sold (I'm assuming they use the same model as Google and sell ads from the data instead of just selling the data, but their ads are so badly targeted it's hard to tell).

That said I don't see myself giving them financial details because I don't really know what they do with data that's not explicitly shared by users (which like I said has become a lot clearer) and I don't really particularly trust them. Plus I'd be amazed if they ever managed to show an ad I was remotely interested in.

Better URL: https://pay.line.me/

Google Checkout shutdown because it had reputational issues among merchants, and culture clash issues with the rest of Google. Payment platforms require human support personnel, and this is something that Google is diametrically opposed to. They algorithmically suspended many merchant accounts early in the service's life, with no explanation as to why and no one to talk to about it. This happened to me; I wound up filing a BBB complaint and they responded saying the reasons that they effectively stole thousands of dollars from me after months of operations without a single chargeback were "proprietary and confidential". I was not alone; the Google Checkout support forums were filled with stories like mine.

This is why no one should ever use Google for any critical function that may require support (cloud servers etc.). Google just doesn't do the whole "human" thing very well. If it goes terribly wrong and they refuse to talk to you, good luck suing them unless you are a Fortune 500 company.

Also Apple Pay inside apps, and for retailers.

I heard good things about WeChat/its chinese counter part. http://www.forbes.com/sites/rosatrieu/2014/07/02/what-chinas...

YouTube belongs to Google. I too wonder why Google hasn't focused more of their attention on YT. It's their social network hub that works fine for about one billion people.

Do the G+ comments below YT videos make sense? No (from the users point of view) . There used to be insightful replies to YT comments including video-replies. All that has vanished, only spam remains. Beside that, anyone remember their older social hubs Google Buzz and Orkut?