Adam Kos Do you remember what different apps looked like a few years ago? That is, how few functions did they know, and did they get over time? Meta, originally a Facebook company, is trying to release one new thing after another, be it in its social network Facebook, Instagram or communication applications WhatsApp and Messenger.
A short window into history
Facebook was founded in 2004, before the revolution in the world of mobile phones caused by the iPhone in 2007. Facebook Chat was created in 2008, and three years later it was launched on the iOS and Android mobile platforms under the name Facebook Messenger. In contrast, WhatsApp was founded in 2009 and was bought by Facebook in 2014. Instagram was then founded in 2010 and Facebook announced its acquisition before WhatsApp in 2012.
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So all four apps belong to Meta and have certain elements in common. When the developers of Instagram copied Snapchat Stories, which became very popular on this network, they were also extended to Facebook or Messenger itself. But what works on one network may not necessarily work on another, and many users publish them on Instagram, but practically only reshare them on Facebook (Twitter has even cut them completely due to lack of interest). And maybe that's why there are four applications from the same company that still look different and one is pushed over the other. However, we are still waiting for the most important news, common to all.
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The age of virtual communication
Whether it's a pandemic or a post-covid world, the world has moved a lot and will continue to move towards different types of remote communication. Everything will be done remotely, whether we like it or not, it will be done that way. There are a huge number of chat platforms, with WhatsApp and Messenger standing out in terms of user base. It simply means that they are the most convenient for communication, because most likely one or even both platforms are used by the other party with whom you want to communicate, so they do not have to install anything else and create their accounts somewhere else.
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However, Meta still does not try to bring the two platforms together in any way. It still maintains a different interface for them, as well as functions, where each title offers a little different. Across the Internet, we can find out what news is coming to which application, or what has recently arrived in it. When WhatsApp this is, for example, playing voice messages across the interface, changing the visuals of the chat list, adding community functions, or new privacy protection measures.
Messenger, on the other hand, adds AR video calls, various chat themes, or even "soundmoji" or finally full end-to-end encryption. Third of all good things: Instagram will allow you to like Stories, add subscriptions, expand the Remix function, as well as security and privacy. All of these are functions that we somehow manage to exist without, because until we knew them, we lived quite well without anything (whoever wanted end-to-end encrypted communication, WhatsApp already offered it for a long time).
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One platform would rule them all
But already in 2020, Facebook announced that it would enable cross-platform messaging. This means that you will only need to use one application from which you can communicate with anyone who uses at least one of the other two. From Instagram, you will connect with those in Messenger or WhatsApp, etc. Meta has already "kicked" this interconnectedness to a certain extent, because it works between Messenger and Instagram, even in the case of group chats. But WhatsApp is still waiting.
Personally, I am unfortunately quite hooked because I use all three applications. Of which WhatsApp the shortest time. Then if Meta gave permission, I would run immediately. The world of communication platforms is really fragmented and it is really difficult to find a conversation in it, so getting rid of one "with impunity" would definitely be a win. Apart from the aforementioned, there are also Apple's iMessages. So someone uses this application, another another, a third a completely different one, and it just makes your head spin.
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So it's really nice how new and new and more and more functions are constantly being added, but if at least one of the most important ones was completed successfully, it would make communication easier for many people. But maybe that would mean a decrease in active users of the given networks, and of course Meta doesn't want that, because those huge numbers just look nice. Maybe he leaves us in vain waiting for a miracle on purpose. Although hope dies last.
