Nope. Engineers are dedicated there to increasing other things than the utility of the app. Interests aren't aligned with the users.
Same with removing chronological feeds. Turn things more and more into slot machines.
Something that nearly any other company would have been banished to the spambox for.
You also used to be able to reply to the message by replying to the notification email, so you could be a full conversation participant solely through email without ever opening the app.
Social media is best suited to that kind of business model - and most people won’t pay for a subscription.
So social media is broke?
I have it turned off, and the last 15 notifications are friend activity that has nothing to do with me.
Or it might have been just the doctor until someone complained and from that point on just the fact that Facebook knew about it might make them suddenly and automatically liable for further bad behaviour.
At the same time, that also makes it irrelevant to the point at hand, since it's not Facebook messenger at all, just general health posts and items offered by that medical group.
Any one that does communicate through them with their doctor, most likely doesn't know what HIPAA is or care.
To FB, it is the old "don't ask or tell" scenario.
And the reasoning to use it? "People are familiar with it from home". Well.. how about using something else and spend 30 mins on educating people? Oh, that might mean no new yacht for shareholders this year.
I wonder if you have to pay FB to promote them? /s
It was actually really cool, except nobody wanted to “own” the community, and eventually some assholes decided to be assholes and got it shut down.
I'll qualify that statement by adding that product management/design team is optimizing for engagement metrics and the engineers are developing from those blueprints. Blame product management for anti-UX decisions. No PO/PM is going to risk their career by spearheading an effort to lower app engagement metrics which results in a loss of advertising revenue.
Edit: rephrased one sentence
This is something people are currently very upset with them for doing.
So they can make things convenient, or keep your data safe, but its hard to do both.
Even if your argument made sense with respect to the thing people are currently very upset about (which I disagree that it does), there is absolutely NO inherent right for FB to exist if they're unable to do both (if it's just "hard", well then get busy).
If I want to keep my data safe, they get to "inconvenience" me? That's ridiculous, if they can't keep my data safe, they don't get shit.
"But it's hard!"
cry me a river
It's an API to publish a notification - a similar API to that used to build the core app. There's no additional sharing of data than what's already happening running the app.