🏠Whatsapp vs Facebook Messenger
I list here several differences between Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger, ordered by importance.
Whatsapp
- [+++] RĂ©pondre Ă un message, makes conversation with multiple simulatenaous subjects way easier. However, answering by stating the question is good too.
- [+--] Images envoyées s'affichent différemment → Images not in full height, does crop, you have to click to see the full image (annoying).
- [++] LĂ©gende sur image
- [+] Images and Video do not autoload (useful for mobile data usage)
- [++-] Format with bold, italics, stroke : FAQ. Disadvantage: apprendre le langage (assez court), se souvenir que le langage est lĂ (exemple, le smiley
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est un _ (underscore en gras). Savoir comment faire un vrai *
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- [++] Faster, more integrated, scales well, use better space on screen
- [+++] Forward multiple messages.
- [+] More structured info about message stuff. On FB, sometimes buggy to see when a msg is read or sent.
- [++] Secure end to end (bout-Ă -bout in french).
- [++] Have a list of shared links (along side list of shared photos and documents)
- [+] When typing
:money
on desktop shows, image/emojis corresponding.
- [++] Preview pdf (only the beginning of the document).
- [--] Annoying when phone is not connected but the phone is actually kind of connected to internet (sometimes, he juste has wifi vs 4g issues)
- [---] Annoying When phone has no battery... Or not connected to the internet.
Facebook
- [+++] Need not to have phone permanently connected to internet to use it on computer
- [+++] Need not to have phone
- [+++] Can do a voice call on computers (Skype replacement, without screen sharing)
- [+] Can like stuffs (fb reaction)... but wazap can answer a message, where people would write like "+1" to agree. becomes annoying when a lot of people just answer "+1".
- Link preview works generally better, sometimes on Whatsapp the preview is not there (which can be the effect we want) but it is not very clear why this happens.
- [++] Emoticons are always vectorial (sometimes on whatsapp we see an ugly bitmap)
- [++] Can copy-paste emojis.
- [++-] Images in full height before you click them, does not crop.
- [++] Experimental plugins Latex/Code (computer only).
- [++] Plugins Chatbot, games, but currently no good uses.
- [+] Is writing is close to the Enter zone, not at the top of the page
- [] Can search through messages ! Because not secure end to end. EDIT: Now whatzapp also has that.
- [--] Does not scale well for not wide screen (halfscreen)
- [+] Url to profile (copy pastable, whereas wzap is phone number)
- [+] Transform :p, :) etc. to corresponding emoji.
- [++] Preview pdf (only the beginning of the document).
Whatsapp uses phone number only
- Phone numbers are not as easy and internet friendly as emails, a website cannot send for free a sms whereas it can for mails
- Name of a person depends on your contact name (however each person have a small public profile). This can be a good and a bad thing.
- Messenger can now be only number only
- However have a short identification number is handy, a little bit easier to share than email, but more error prone (a mispelled digit is a no no).
- More difficult to find someone on the network