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Seems like Messenger is getting WeChat-ized - in China, WeChat [0] is your one-stop shop to getting anything done - chatting, following celebrities, booking housekeeping, payments, even "mini-programs". And now many Western messaging apps are starting to take inspiration from this [1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeChat

[1]: https://blog.ycombinator.com/lessons-from-wechat/

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Is it working though? Just because Facebook keeps adding features doesn’t necassarily mean that people are using those features at the same scale as WeChat. I avoid Facebook messenger entirely, but are others using it for all these ancillary things like sending friends money?

My (non-technical) friends & family, as anecdotal evidence, seem almost universally happy about switching to Facebooks Lite Messenger. (An app that only provides messaging functionality.)

They perceive it as less confusing.

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