I rather like the expression Faecesbook.

Shitfaces could describe it's users.

It's also part of a struggle for relevance. People who use Facebook are older and don't have the disposable income of the youth of today. For the Facebook corporation to drive advertising revenues they need a way to reach a younger market.

Hang on. Older people don't have more disposable income compared to txting addicted tweenies?

How do you work that out?

Is it just that slightly older users who use Facebook are incapable of earning a decent screw?

Ouch!

I thought that to be accepted wisdom. Parents don't, in general, have any money because they have children. Those who do are set in their ways, they'll just keep buying Calvados no matter what the price of vodka and Red Bull. The people who can collectively shell out a fortune for a new product or service are the txting tweenies; that's who advertisers want to reach.

Sorry.

A weak argument. Surely it's time for a geriatric messaging system, like BE.

It's called Facebook.

's okay [

QUOTE=Novocastrian;11142212]Sorry.[/QUOTE]

Oh.

Whatsapp doesn't carry any ads. They actually have quite the anti-ad philosophy.

I used the whats app a few times, not any longer though, but never paid anything for the service.

Makes me wish with an acquisition like that and others, that I was a creative tech type....lol

Never managed to get (various) phones to cooperate/collaborate with Whats App, despite aid from teens. Settled for Viber to facilitate free overseas communications with the famdamily.

I got involved with Fbook a while back to keep tabs on aforementioned teens, then got caught up in it for a while. I now tend to drift in and out of it, at widely varying intervals. It has also been useful for finding/being found by/keeping in touch with Long Lost Relatives who are apparently otherwise technologically challenged.

SB

use both Whatsapp and viber

At the club where I drink it's considered bad form not to return the classified section of the paper to the bar after doing the puzzle because the obituaries are in there. We call it 'Facebook for old people'.