Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has made a pledge to kill off the annoying game invites that pop up in notifications. What you should focus on is not which mistake to avoid…
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Based on his comments at the Town Hall Q&A Wednesday, it is clear that Zuckerberg is determined to convince Indians that Internet.org is working for them, rather than against them.
The Facebook boss said: “There are a few tools that are kind of outdated that allow people to send invitations to people who’ve never used a game, who have gotten invitations in the past but don’t play games on Facebook”.
Instead of simply seeing a list of Likes and requests, as on the current tab, people in the U.S. will soon start seeing a more personalised design that shows birthdays, weather reports, trending topics and local news. The question about game requests (game screen pictured) received a huge cheer from the 1,000- strong audience. Yes, that’s right! Back then “Facebook” was called “The Facebook”.
Recently, an organization going by the name www.savetheinternet.in had posted an open letter taking a contrarian and according to them, revealing stand on Mark Zuckerberg’s statements and stance on the Internet.
If Location History is enabled these cards can also include local events and news that is popular nearby (pictured). Yesterday, in your townhall address at IIT Delhi, you mentioned, “Those who don’t have access to the Internet can not sign online petitions”, trying to make a case that those who oppose Internet.org/Free Basics service are campaigning against those who do not have Internet access.
The social networking giant said its users are already making over 1.5 billion searches per day. His last visit to Delhi was in October of 2014, during which he met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the first Internet.org Summit. “This is keeping in mind the choice of the “.com” URL for FreeBasics.com, as opposed to a “.org” for Internet.org. You’ve also suggested that universal access is more important than Net Neutrality, and that there is a possibility of taking Net Neutrality “too far”. “Internet.org and Facebook 100 percent support Net Neutrality”, said Zuckerberg.
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I don’t want any more invitations to Candy Crush. “People will be able to share life-like moments with friends and family through Facebook and Whatsapp”. That’s a few of the stuff that’s really exciting. It’s only taken us 20-odd years to get to this point, but in the process of becoming totally connected, we’ve managed to leave a lot of people behind: approximately 4 billion people, if you want to put a number on it.
