Facebook has many open fronts. From the scandal and privacy of Cambridge Analytica to the endless number of applications and companies that are constantly buying to strengthen their products, going through the laboratory of ideas or their claims to bring the company to the market. Internet worldwide. However, although the most important purchases are made to the company, as in the case of Instagram or WhatsApp, the truth is that there are others that are not. 39 have not gained popularity, in addition to internal developments that are not completed.

Now, it seems that Facebook wants to bring order to its products and clean them up, or at least close some of the open fronts of the company, all to focus their efforts on what 's going on. they do well (which is not small). In this sense, the company has announced the definitive closure of three services, two miners, but one well known.

We regularly review our requests to evaluate the most profitable ones. This sometimes means closing an application and its attached APIs. […] But we must give priority to our work so as not to expand too much. And it is only through trial and error that we will create great social experiences for people. – Facebook

This year there will be three requests to return, Moves, Hello and tbh . The first is well known, Moves is a well-known physical activity monitoring app that was launched in 2013 and subsequently purchased by Facebook in 2014. Despite its independence, Facebook has tried to put it in the # Main application with a shoehorn Download it. It will cease to be operational on July 31st.

Hello is the Facebook application with which he wanted to replace the "phone" in Android, make free calls via Wi-Fi and ultimately convert to the social network at the center of your calls. Apparently nothing has worked well, and now closes too. The latest is the most surprising of all, and it is that Facebook has announced the closure of Tbh only eight months after the announcement of its purchase. For those who do not know, tbh is an anonymous chat application for teens, which will now have to say goodbye because it will no longer be operational. In addition, Facebook announced that will erase the data of all users of these applications in 90 days.

This is not the first time that Facebook is closing some of its applications, for example in the case of iOS, the company has eliminated several applications from the Apple Store in August of last year, including Lifestage, a youth-focused chat app focused on high schools, and Grupos, the independent app to handle this service on Facebook. 19659008] You can comment this article and others in our community

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