Comments on: The perfect murder: How Facebook will kill the phone as we know it

By: Regina Lizik

Regina Lizik — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:35:33 +0000

Facebook has too overcome its image problem before it over “kills” anything other than Myspace. Right now, that’s the only thing Facebook has successfully killed. Despite the fact that FB has other uses, it’s still widely seen as the place to post drunk photos and play Castleville. People don’t consider FB to be the place to find useful and relevant information – although it could be that, it doesn’t market itself as such.

By: dm14

dm14 — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:45:30 +0000

Interesting article. I have believed for some time that as soon as a viable competitor to the Phone Number comes along, the game is over for the phone companies. I don’t know if Facebook is it or not. Even if they have a billion users, they are still not the single online identity for everyone as other commenters have pointed out. But maybe they don’t have to be, considering that most people have three or more phone numbers, one for home, one for work and one for mobile.

Anyway, I was thinking that Facebook’s other motivation behind this move is simply a way to make money from the mobile market. If they start charging to connect calls to the PSTN (Grandma’s phone) like Skype does, then maybe that’s where they’re heading. It will be interesting to try this out if they add it to the Android app.

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:03:02 +0000

WebRTC is a much more relevant topic and will make this article worthless.

http://www.webrtc.org/

By: KirkJack

KirkJack — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:08:49 +0000

What happen to Poke? Yes, Flop

By: Phoenix

Phoenix — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 06:56:55 +0000

Well said Phil.
I think there are too many journos writing pie in the sky articles which are misleading and best not read.

By: Phoenix

Phoenix — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 06:56:53 +0000

Well said Phil.
I think there are too many journos writing pie in the sky articles which are misleading and best not read.

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 03:56:33 +0000

I just want a cellular provider who just bills me for data – package my voice, text, and data all into one fee. Give me a limited amount of data – but let the pricing be simple and straightforward.

By: Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 23:16:22 +0000

Facebook is the ultimate filter, meaning the ultimate “Let it go to the answer machine.” We have a phone at home we never answer. We have cells we rarely don’t answer. See a pattern? We love the filtering effect of our cell phone which would be even better if we only received calls from our Facebook connections.

For business, the filter is LinkedIn. It is an amazing way to bring the signal out of the noise and is the future of most channels we listen to. Great write up.

We wrote up a similar thought here: http://successfulworkplace.com/2012/12/01/the-end-of-the-nuisance-call-or-wrong-number/

Enjoy.

By: Anton Melser

Anton Melser — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:47:28 +0000

Not again. Please refrain from such pointless mind games. Facebook email was going to kill email. Yes folks, many people (Mr Gaal was probably one of them) were shrieking from the rooftops how Facebook email was going to destroy Gmail… What happened to FBMail? FLOP! What happened to Gmail? Not flop, now it’s number 1… And that in spite of FB being more popular than both Jesus and John Lennon combined!

By: The Genius Way

The Genius Way — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:35:23 +0000

Reblogged this on The Genius Way and commented: Do individuals really put their real life phone number on their Facebook page? Maybe I'm just not comfortable with this but I do see Facebook entering the phone market via app!