Facebook Launches New 'Slingshot' Messaging App

[Lapidus]

Yep, they rejected a $3 BILLION offer from FB a year ago... insane on their part considering they make no money

True. But still, thumbs up Snapchat!

 

[powerstrokin]

how r u even supposed to respond properly if you dont even know what ur friend sent u first.

worst case scenario:

friend sends a picture after nearly dying in a car accident

i dont see the picture so i response with a yolo party pic

friends gonna be like .... rude

^^^^ This is what's wrong with the youth today.

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Awesome! Have been awaiting this app because I deleted Snapchat. Don't want to support a company that is run by a huge douchebag. Now Facebook make this ***** international.

You can't be serious..

 

[SockRolid]

... A video and photo messaging app, Slingshot allows users to send media to friends, who are unable to view it until they share something back. ...

"Hell is other people."
- Jean-Paul Sartre

"Hell is other people over-sharing on social media."
- SockRolid

 

[kolax]

What a load of crap!
So user A sends a picture.
User B sends just a blank picture with their finger on the lens, just so they can see user A's picture.
User A then sends a blank picture too, just to see what User B replied with - a blank picture. Then both users stop using the app because it's just a never ending stream of blank pictures!

Hit the nail on the head there. I really don't understand Facebook's thought process and why they thought this would work.

It isn't available in the UK so I can't try it. Does a user get a notification to say someone sent them a 'Slingshot', but in order to view it, they have to take a photo? How does that user know what to take a photo of? The sender might've written text saying "let's see your car, here's mine" and you reply with a snap of you pulling a silly face, derailing the 'snap-ersation'.

I really don't understand this. Am I missing something?