Why is this happening? This is 2020, there are so many solutions for multi person VIDEO calling that to think someone is releasing an audio only version?!?! Whats next a new type of AM radio??
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Facebook Launches 'Catchup' Audio Calling App
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Perfect. We’re going to add a Zuckerberg layer to our phone calls. Just what we’ve always wanted.
Only the brilliant minds at Facebook could have come up with this concept.
Facebook’s CatchUp... what a pertinent name, more like FB “Catching up to your privacy”, “Catching up the rest of your contacts that are not on or avoided Facebook”. Because, see, it will indirectly affect people by having only one person of a whole group share their phone through someone uploading contacts.
Once someone said, here on mac rumors, to see it with this analogy: someone saying not to care about privacy because he got nothing to hide, is similar to that person saying not to care about free speech because he got nothing to say.
Once someone said, here on mac rumors, to see it with this analogy: someone saying not to care about privacy because he got nothing to hide, is similar to that person saying not to care about free speech because he got nothing to say.
I still find it amazing that anyone still trusts Facebook.
There's an opportunity for you to create a social network that has end to end encryption for you and all your friends.
Privacy is a human right! People do not put curtains on their windows because they are important for example, but their rights to have that privacy is important.
Will the calls be interrupted with real time ads based on what you’re talking about? Hard pass.
That’s fantastic! Facebook can be a truly amazing resource for connecting with people. If you can use it wisely like you do, so much the better. Good on ya!
There's an opportunity for you to create a social network that has end to end encryption for you and all your friends.
Why would I do that? What possible reason would I have for wanting to create or use a social network when it is 2020? The fad is long over and if you must have one there are free and open source alternatives to Facebook like Dispora which is built on Ruby and pretty damn easy to push up to a server. But still, it is 2020 and time to move on.
The key reason I no longer make calls is because far more convenient asynchronous communication tools exist. Facebook offers at least two such services - Messenger and WhatsApp.
a) it's an app for Apple devices, and b) it's a competitor to services Apple provides.
a) it's an app for Apple devices, and b) it's a competitor to services Apple provides.
for the love of god, stop screwing around and just add dark mode to the main app. have we not suffered long enough?
Obviously, having a phone app built into my phone, WhatsApp audio calling, Messenger audio calling, Zoom, and the countless other calling functions shoved into other apps wasn’t enough for Facebook.
No. We need Catchup.
No. We need Catchup.
Install a FB app on my iPhone? Just no. I'd rather give up the iPhone than use an app related to FB. A terrible company.
I am reading all the negative comments and thinking to my self. People now days don’t have the understanding or compassion to realize that this app was created for a very particular group of people. You see in the third world countries people are not completely paralyzed by their phones yet and they are accustomed to making calls and talk to one another and catch up with friends and family. People that are not good with all the fancy tech we take for granted. Skype did an internal study on that availability icon it’s very important to know if someone is available or not for most cultures. As simple as this app, it provides a stepping stone to convert people to future Facebook users.
True. Yet it remains worth fighting for.
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if it matters to you, this is what i did to deal with FB after being off of it for a couple of years, but decided I was missing out on things because everybody uses the Events section. When I reactivated, I unfollowed everybody (not unfriended). so when I login, my Feed is empty, I don't have to read/see anything except whatever unrelated stupid ads that come up (i specifically like to click on each ad and say its not relevant to me, no matter what it is). So, if I want to know what a friend is up to, I just go to their wall/feed/TL specifically, and i'll reach out by text if I need to. I also only have around 170 friends on there. How people with 4,000 friends can follow anything is beyond me.