Facebook is just copying anything and everything that is social media. They want to own all your personal conversations online. That itself should be scary enough for anyone.
Agreed, I wish everyone wouldn’t keep supporting their attempts to crush competitors and harvest everyone’s data. It seems like antitrust laws should be rewritten to apply here.
I wonder if nearly every major network (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit, Slack, Spotify etc) cloning Clubhouse as a feature is actually helping Clubhouse with free marketing?
It may also be better for them to focus on doing one thing really well, rather than doing it sub-par as a feature. Facebook copied TikTok's video format as a feature in Instagram, and TikTok is still gaining popularity as they haven't changed their focus.
But the opposite can happen like when Instagram copied Snapchat's functionality. I think the difference was Tiktok has a lot of creators entrenched in the platform with a strong community while Snapchat didn't have any sense of community. If Facebook/others are successful will probably depend on what kind of community they can build.
TikTok is a special case since it’s owned by a conglomerate with deep enough pockets to brute force their way into Western consciousness. They most likely pay their top creators not to post Instagram Reels.
I don’t think it would have nearly the amount of success today if it were an American company going through the traditional VC funding route.
Instagram and Youtube did the same with TikTok. Maybe one day all the FAANG companies will have massive identical apps with a gazillion features cobbled together. The social media equivalent of Emacs.
