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To everyone who is saying "What's the big deal? Wasn't all of this obvious and well known?" - ask 10 people you know who the parent company of WhatsApp and Instagram is (and throw in an irrelevant app in there just to make it less predictable). If your friends list is across a reasonable cross spectrum of age and job titles, I am guessing not more than 2 of them would know the answer. Or, if you want to make it a little more humorous, ask "So what do you think of the recent Facebook scandal?". At least a few of them would say "Oh! I don't use Facebook anymore! I only use WhatsApp"

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Because normal users are not techies. They just use whatever they want and not getting into their company information, privacy or other things.

World is about money. You have to realize that that best money come form people who don't give a f$#k. They click on ads, they give their personal data, they buy the most, etc. We can rant as much as we want that Apple does not give us PRO hardware that Microsoft does the same but most of their income is from ordinary people who just use their hardware/software.

had a non-tech friend recently message me this (about brian acton from WhatsApp tweeting against Facebook):

"so dumb. of course the founder of a competing company would criticize them"

> Or, if you want to make it a little more humorous, ask "So what do you think of the recent Facebook scandal?". At least a few of them would say "Oh! I don't use Facebook anymore! I only use WhatsApp"

Or: "what was the scandal?"

Tech-savvy person here, "big deal" isn't what I'm wondering.

How on earth, though, is this "big news"?

Because it started with Trump and Trump makes people click on headlines. They have now realised that Facbeook is bad also makes people click on headlines. That's all.

In any half serious newspaper this isn't big news but more of a reminder of a story they ran when Facebook launched this shit.

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