TFW you tap on the "1!" messenger icon, get bounced to the Play Store, and silently curse the ancestors of FB product managers (again).
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Engineers make dumb decisions all the time. Just not *these* dumb decisions.
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Lets take this apart: you accept a friend request and *immediately* a "chat" notification appears.
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Except it isn't really a chat notification. It's an invitation from the system for *you* to chat with *them*.
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Should you make the mistake of tapping on it from the web UI, you get bounced to the Play Store.
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This is, in a word, scummy. It's Zynga-level: cheap, dirty, underhanded, and effective. At one point I'd even have thought it below them.
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But that is not today's Facebook. Today's Facebook does not have qualms with UI that lies if it's good for Product (TM).
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If you work at Facebook and you somehow think this is OK, or it's justifiable in some abstract way, step away from the RSUs & rethink things
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I saw both of Google's major reputation-burning initiatives from inside. I can assure you, 'Bookers, that this doesn't end well.
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The cheap, juiced stats won't outlast your tenure...but the shame will.
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