Users can have anonymity on Instagram and WhatsApp, unlike Facebook. Strong privacy and encryption is a core part of the WhatsApp product offering, and employees are seemingly concerned that those tenets will be ignored in order to implement the grand unification of Facebook messaging services. WhatsApp employees seem to be particularly annoyed by the plans.
Several WhatsApp employees have left or plan to leave because of Mr. Some said his answers were vague and meandering. Zuckerberg why he was so invested in merging the services. 7, employees gathered around microphones at WhatsApp’s offices to ask Mr. Zuckerberg called a follow-up meeting with WhatsApp employees later in the week, three of the people said. We already saw the Instagram cofounders depart last year, which is believed to have been a response to other parts of Facebook trying to exert more firm control over the Instagram product.
The report says some employees at Instagram and WhatsApp are uncomfortable with Facebook’s change of direction, which appears to be led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The move would represent a strategic shift in Facebook operations as up to now Instagram and WhatsApp have largely been developed independently of the core Facebook behemoth. Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp will remain separate apps on the home screen but the common messaging features will be unified.įacebook appeared to confirm the report in a statement to the New York Times. A WhatsApp user would be able to start a chat with an Instagram user, breaking down barriers between Facebook’s social platforms.Ī Messenger user would be able to send an end-to-end encrypted conversation with someone who only has a WhatsApp account for instance. The New York Times is reporting that Facebook plans to combine messaging services across its applications, merging chats from WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger.
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