What opportunities do you guys see?
Quite simply, the monetisation of your facebook content.
I think FB want to try and snatch some eyes from Youtube, if the crypto works in the way I expect it to, then each like will have a monetary value. Therefore content producers will be clamouring all over the platform to get their stuff in front of eyeballs.
Of course there will still be facebook looking to boost your content if you pay them, so in that sense it will be very good for them, but also for the content producer who can potentially make a profit by boosting.
The main thing I have a problem with, is it won't really be a real crypto, yet people will still call it that. The currency will more closely resemble the tokens within
Second Life and other such reality games. Whereby it is centrally controlled and is inflated or deflated at the whim of the controlling body, in this case Facebook.
The whole point of a crypto is that there are very clear rules set out at launch and those rules are set in stone, or rather in code, and those rules cannot be broken by anyone. Secondly a crypto currency is the representitive token of a distributed ledger. In other words the history of interactions is held on many computers around the world, all running the software of the blockchain.
Therefore if the blockchain just exists on a few corporate servers, then that is another example of how it is a centralised token and not a true cryptocurrency.
Unfortunately none of that will matter to the average person in the street, "Facebook now has a crypto" is all they'll know.
Anyway, that's the long winded way of saying, yes there will probably be opportunity to make some money using this model, however Facebook can and will pull the rug out from under you at some point in the future.