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

Facebook Paper: The Inside Story Is **t What You'd Expect
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Paper doesn't quite fit the typical Facebook 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.

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While **t unexpected, 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, a Snapchat look-a-like intended for the general public, hasn't been updated since its release in December 2012). Read more...

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