As social media (SM) becomes prevalent in the casual aspect of our daily life or more saturated in North America and many other developed countries, it starts to attack other respects, one of the most dominant of which is business.
In early August this year, Facebook announced that it will allow small businesses in developing countries to sell their products for free through their Facebook pages. Indeed, merchants were already able to make business on Facebook last year but only through paid ads. This attempt was said to be one among many that Facebook is deploying to increase sellers’ dependence on the app, especially of those in Southeast Asia – Facebook’s fastest growing market. After realizing that its Western markets were saturated, Facebook now turns to other emerging markets, targeting to increase its profits from advertising in these areas.
About a month and a half later, another business was rumored to appear soon on Snapchat. Particularly this time, the photo sharing app might introduce its movie ticket purchasing experience in the near future. According to a piece of news on Mashable, Paul Yanover (Fandango president) somehow hinted to the mass media that “…his company was working with Snapchat…on an interface design…”. No matter how long it might take for Snapchat to make such vision come true, it seems that the social network is leaning towards e-commerce – a somewhat similar experience to what Facebook has to offer its sellers.
Such introduction is getting more and more frequent among the community of social media and hasn’t shown any stopping signs yet. But who knows something else might take over at any time?
http://mashable.com/2016/09/16/snapchat-movie-tickets/#TsPbedg2maqk
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