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Comment by Mithaldu | Hacker News Reader

What is this? Does it have a serious purpose and i just can't identify it, or is it satire i don't grok?

The idea is that facebook has added stories to facebook, instagram, whatsapp and facebook messenger in a frenetic binge presumable attempt to crush snapchat.

And somehow, none of them are connected (not even Facebook and Messenger), so you have four different story apps from the one company.

I had missed that facebook owned instagram.

And each has slightly different look and feel. Facebook and their products…

The FB and Messenger ones are different too!? At least the other three are separate accounts, so that's justifiable, but FB and Messenger are the same account, they're even the same website on desktop.

>they're even the same website on desktop

This isn't entirely correct - there is messenger.com if you want to use messenger without the distraction of your news feed.

Wow, strange that I use FB every day and have never head of that.

Carthago delenda est! [1]

[1] http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/how-mark-zuckerberg-l...

Some would say Facebook/Zuckerberg has gone too far in copying competitors' features into Instagram/Faceboook. Snapchat's Stories is a recent example of this. Hence Zuck.js

Well Zuckerberg is the new Bill Gates. Embrace, Extend & Extinguish. They're on a frenzy to kill snapchat before it gets big like they did with Google+.

Yeah, I don't get it either. Thanks for asking.

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