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03-03-2017, 06:00 PM
Facebook won't force you to chat with its chatbots anymore
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E**ugh with the small talk.*
Contrary to their name, Facebook's hordes of third-party Messenger chatbots have never been the strongest conversationalists.
Try to get one to, say, order a pizza and too often you'll find yourself stumbling through a drawn-out back-and-forth (https://www.theguardian.com/tech**logy/2016/apr/29/please-facebook-dont-make-me-speak-to-your-awful-chatbots) that'll make you pull your hair out.*
SEE ALSO: Facebook's new emoji are finally available to everyone (http://mashable.com/2017/02/23/facebook-new-emoji/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
That's only after you've gone through the confusing hassle of finding the bot and, in some cases, awkwardly making the first move. *
Facebook, it seems, gets that. It k**ws you don't always relish these intimate encounters of the bot kind. * Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/03/02/facebook-lessy-chatty-chatbots/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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E**ugh with the small talk.*
Contrary to their name, Facebook's hordes of third-party Messenger chatbots have never been the strongest conversationalists.
Try to get one to, say, order a pizza and too often you'll find yourself stumbling through a drawn-out back-and-forth (https://www.theguardian.com/tech**logy/2016/apr/29/please-facebook-dont-make-me-speak-to-your-awful-chatbots) that'll make you pull your hair out.*
SEE ALSO: Facebook's new emoji are finally available to everyone (http://mashable.com/2017/02/23/facebook-new-emoji/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
That's only after you've gone through the confusing hassle of finding the bot and, in some cases, awkwardly making the first move. *
Facebook, it seems, gets that. It k**ws you don't always relish these intimate encounters of the bot kind. * Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/03/02/facebook-lessy-chatty-chatbots/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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