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Opinion | Facebook Just Shoplifted Snapchat’s Best Idea

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The shift in Facebook to privacy emphasizing apps and away from public posting of status updates and photos. Snapchat was a pioneer in the field of private messaging. Data shows social media is in big trouble with the young who no longer favor public posting of photos and status updates. The privacy shift from Facebook comes not as a value shift but a shift with the data about user trends. Swisher suggests that a lot of damage was done as Facebook was incapable of handling the business it was in including threats from fake news in news feeds, making this a much needed shift, which Swisher says Snapchat and the public originally initiated not Facebook. Facebook merely followed the data about users.



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