I was a late entrant to smart phone world and so the whatsapp. After I bought my smart phone and started using whatsapp I found the reason for decrease in active facebook usage by users. I felt bad when I come to know that people are becoming less active in facebook only because of whatsapp.
If I say facebook and whatsapp are competitors, many will think me as fool. But as MBA student I was taught like that. “Need remains same but only the way to fulfil it varies.” According to this economists will say coke and pepsi are rivals but they have common competitors tea and coffee. I hope it will be easy for common people to understand why whatsapp is major competitor for facebook. And it is globally accepted that whatsapp reduced active Facebook users.
Is whatsapp really worthier than facebook ?
Facebook and twitter together proved their potential to make peoples’ revolutions while whatsapp did nothing great like that so far.
Some saying that fb too restricts global interaction. It allows social interaction between people of same culture/ country/place only and it started boring now a days.
If someone says like that it means they haven’t used the facebook efficiently. I have people from Iran, Egypt, Bangladesh in my friends list. I even chatted wid them .I fought with north Indians in fb. There are pages. If we use them effectively. It will never be a boring thing to you.
Then also they continue to say that only very few are like that many giving friend requests only to increase number. What I’m saying is facebook gives space for all these things. It is our duty to make use of them.
What whatsapp did ?
Many people dont want to be active in fb because their needs are satisfied within their phone contacts through whatsapp and few more extension in the name of groups. It was not the scenerio before whatsapp. While using facebook many used to come across several social things or at least saw social posts. Even though they didn’t involve much.
Everything started with chat only. Our intention to be in fb was to chat, then slowly we come across shares and status and we got interest in them, like that only we started using facebook and became very active in it. To generalise things we can simply say everything is for communication only. But what they extra offering is important.
Facebook gives complete profile presentation, chat, connectivity with frenz , a global platform to share our views as a revolutionary tool and fun also. Whatsapp offers chat, group chat, fun. Nothing more than tat. But we people replaced fb with whatsapp. Fb became just for formality thing .
Whatsapp was not supposed to give competition to fb logically. But we people helped for that. People and whatsapp mutually restricts ourselves.
Why Facebook ?
Reading news from official Facebook page of any news paper/channel let you know about what people thinks about the news and their pure reaction. It is made possible through comments. And tats were Facebook stands high.
Pages are the powerhouses
Liking a facebook page costs me nothing. And anyone can like any pages of their interest. If they do so facebook will never become boring.
For example if you liked a football club page, Post may be supporting the club but not the COMMENTS.
Comments only will give you the opinion not the post. By seeing different people’s opinion and views we are free from becoming biased. When tastes differs conversation will heat up as fights. Fight may be stressful but at the end if you will get some conclusion and mind will become peaceful. Keeping it as healthy conversation is up to you. We always need healthy conversations to make decisions and to believe something. Healthy conversations do bring revolutionary ideas. And facebook offers more and more than that And it was in course of making people to change from being chat oriented. Whatsapp grabbed that chance by letting the people remain chat and fun oriented. I hope fb will make some change with this acquisition and people will again get connected to society through facebook instead of just chatting in whatsapp. Twitter is equally good as facebook in bringing social awareness but they couldnt keep a friends circle/network like facebook.
Again saying, whatsapp is no match for Facebook .
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