{"id":14918,"date":"2016-05-26T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dlvrit.com\/blog?p=14918&preview_id=14918"},"modified":"2026-04-15T01:06:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:06:50","slug":"facebook-messenger-chatbots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dlvrit.com\/blog\/facebook-messenger-chatbots\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Messenger and the Rise of the Bot \u2013 Should You Care?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Email forever changed the way my generation communicates. The next significant shift in communication was social networking. As a new generation of users are storming the web, a new form of communication follows.\u00a0An increasing number of young adults\u00a0are migrating from highly public social media networks like Facebook to private micro-networks<\/a>\u00a0like Facebook Messenger, Slack<\/a>, WeChat, and Telegram for their to day-to-day communication.<\/p>\n

Messaging apps are a clear indication of the rapid emergence of different kinds of communication tools<\/strong> serving the next generation of online users. For us small business owners, they add\u00a0to an already complex and varied landscape\u00a0of marketing options. You might have just mastered SEO or optimized the best time to post on social media<\/a>\u00a0and now comes along this new ‘thing’ to figure out – sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Facebook Messenger and the Rise of the Chatbot – Should You Ca<\/strong>re?<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Inquiring minds want to know:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Is Facebook Messenger just a blip?<\/p>\n

What about WhatsApp – is it a passing fancy?<\/p>\n

And, then there is Slack. Is this just the latest marketing fad?<\/p>\n

Self-destructing messages that made Snapchat<\/a>\u00a0big news are starting to become mainstream. Its user base has reportedly hit 100 million people<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Consider\u00a0the numbers:<\/strong><\/h3>\n