Facebook Paper: The Inside Story Is **t What You'd Expect

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Facebook Paper: The Inside Story Is **t What You'd Expect
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Paper doesn't quite fit the typical Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) mold.

For starters, the standalone app took the company nearly 30 months to build — a lifetime by Facebook's "move fast and break things" standard. When Paper was finally unveiled, many users were pleasantly surprised by the app's design, which is image-heavy and — with the exception of a few buttons in the upper righthand corner — looks next to **thing like the Facebook app with which we've grown familiar.

See also: Facebook in 2014: Fighting for Social Supremacy (http://mashable.com/2013/12/26/facebook-looking-ahead-to-2014/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)


While **t unexpected (http://mashable.com/2014/01/15/facebook-news-reader/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), the app was still uncommon. Facebook has built five other standalone apps over its 10-year-existence, including the traditional Facebook app. That group includes one app you've probably never heard of (Facebook Pages Manager is just for Page admins), and a**ther Facebook hopes you never will (Poke (http://mashable.com/category/facebook-poke/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), a Snapchat look-a-like intended for the general public, hasn't been updated since its release in December 2012). Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/27/story-facebook-paper/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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