Facebook will associate its name with Instagram and WhatsApp, for some reason
Incredible. Despite a seemingly endless wave of ongoing public relations crises for Facebook, the social media giant appears prepared to pin its luggage on two of its significantly less troubled affiliates ̵[ads1]1; WhatsApp and Instagram – by associating the name with the companies their.
Citing Famous Sources With the case reported on Thursday, Facebook is looking to redeploy the two apps by renaming them "Instagram from Facebook" and "WhatsApp from Facebook," a format it already uses for its collaboration tool Workplace. Rebrand will be visible when users log in to the apps and in-app big screens, according to the report, and probably elsewhere. What can go wrong ?!
The move comes as a result of Mark Zuckerberg's frustration that his social media site has received no more props for the companies' success, according to the information, which sounds right given what we know about Facebook's big boy CEO. In a statement, Facebook spokeswoman Bertie Thomson told Information that the company wants "to be clearer about the products and services that are part of Facebook."
This is of course an almost comically bad decision on Facebook's part. and I can also imagine terrible news for the so-called "family of apps."
Instagram and WhatsApp – perhaps the former more than the latter – have largely managed to avoid some of the associative fallout from Facebook's colossal mountain of nonsense, be it related to antitrust investigations, privacy concerns, security concerns, or any yet undiscovered bomb.
And a good percentage of consumers are aware that these apps are owned by a company that has yet to prove that it can handle even a modicum of its own power. But adding such an explicit link between Facebook and Instagram and WhatsApp certainly won't do any favors.
Man, believing that there was a time when influencer sponcon seemed like an Instagram death button.
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