Snapchat users aren't happy Facebook is stealing Snapchat's thunder through new features introduced to Instagram. And I'm here laughing.
True, I'm no Snapchat-ter nor am I invested in Instagram. But it's no news what's happening.
Sadly, or maybe fortunately, people are waking up to Facebook's general master plan. Not content with cornering the lion-share of the social media experience (in Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp), the internet behemoth's imperialistic and expansionist tendencies ensure that if you, as a strong competitor, refuse Facebook's mouthwatering advances, the Zuckerville smart-alecs go to work and incorporate your best and most attractive services into their existing and well-used platforms, baking it smoothly into the user experience.
The advantage of already having a faithful userbase means their services (Facebook's that is) will, sooner than later, overshadow those of the unwilling competitor, making their business difficult. That's how 360° videos, live videos, a standalone Facebook Messenger app, Facebook Memories, and now Instagram Stories came to being forcing competitors to look futilely as their userbase shrinks.
If they can, Facebook will make sure as soon as you unlock your phone, you stay connected to Facebook's apps and services until you put your phone back in your pocket. Whether competitors like it or not.
So, even as they "altruistically" (I'm hysterically laughing at my use of that word) attempt to beam "free" (ooh, there's no such thing in real life) internet access to Internet-cold areas of the world using satellites and solar-powered "Impulse"-like planes, there's one goal in mind: worldwide domination.
The pieces are falling in place, calculated piece by calculated piece. Users of competitor-services can bemoan it all they want. I'd just be laughing. Except of course there's another revolution in the offing that makes nonsense of these expansionist objectives. History is filled with the Yahoos, MySpaces and AOLs.
We'd see. Until then...
NB
I stayed out of the insidious accusations of "Facebook's listening in on users' conversations and surreptitiously capturing images via users' smartphone cameras" on purpose. That's a gist for a future date.
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