{"id":85137,"date":"2016-01-29T15:46:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T13:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=85137"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:05:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:05:32","slug":"facebooks-next-big-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebooks-next-big-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Will this be Facebook\u2019s next big move? This image may be a clue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new <strong>patent<\/strong> reveals that <strong>Facebook<\/strong> is currently investigating the market for a car-sharing platform.<\/p>\n<p>We are already accustomed to using Facebook to create or join events, therefore coordinating a <strong>shared car trip<\/strong> should be no obstacle for the social media giants.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s idea is to make the activity of car sharing into an event. Here you have a rough plan of how it could work:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-85139\" title=\"1Facbook\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/01\/1Facbook1-568x319.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/01\/1Facbook1.jpg 568w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/01\/1Facbook1-256x143.jpg 256w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/01\/1Facbook1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/01\/1Facbook1-238x134.jpg 238w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/01\/1Facbook1-436x246.jpg 436w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/01\/1Facbook1-370x208.jpg 370w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/01\/1Facbook1-304x170.jpg 304w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, Facebook should be able to help \u00a0you organize the details and even go as far to provide suggestions of who may wish to accompany you.<\/p>\n<p>A month ago, the company announced its agreement with <strong>Uber<\/strong> that allows users to book a car using the Messenger app. In their statement, Facebook also hinted that they would look to add similar services in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new patent reveals that Facebook is currently investigating the market for a car-sharing platform. We are already accustomed to using Facebook to create or join events, therefore coordinating a shared car trip should be no obstacle for the social media giants. Facebook\u2019s idea is to make the activity of car sharing into an event. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebooks-next-big-move\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Will this be Facebook\u2019s next big move? This image may be a clue&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-85137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329346,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85137\/revisions\/329346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85137"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=85137"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=85137"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=85137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}