Why is Facebook messaging bad?

We use it like chat. It integrates with our ticket system (zendesk). It’s 
great. 

Almost everyone has a FB account. It’s a free chat system for 
support/information. 

I don’t see the issue. 

> On Mar 10, 2019, at 11:43 AM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Since Zuckerberg’s blog post about the future of messaging on Facebook, there 
> has been a lot of discussion about how young people especially dislike the 
> public post approach of social media platforms like Facebook and prefer 
> alternatives like Snapchat and WeChat.
>  
> Occasionally we get customers sending us a PM on Facebook, trying to use it 
> like tech support chat.  We find it to be very inefficient, and try to get 
> them to email us or call, but most of the time they just engage in a series 
> of back-and-forth Facebook messages.  This morning we got a message “I have a 
> question, can you help?”  I don’t know, what’s the question?
>  
> Unfortunately, Facebook seems to be the only social media app or platform 
> widely used by our not-so-young not-so-savvy customer base.  At least as far 
> as we know.  Maybe they are going crazy on Snapchat, Instagram, Slack, 
> WeChat, Twitter, or some other platform we don’t use.
>  
> Are you folks finding something other than Facebook for your customers to 
> contact you with private messages?  Maybe not a public platform at all but 
> some kind of chat feature on your website?  But chat needs 24x7 staffing and 
> that means outsourcing or a chatbot, not sure I want to do that.  We do have 
> a “contact us” form on the mobile version of our website, and sometimes 
> people do use that, but that only works if they answer their phone and/or 
> check their email.
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