Slack the next big communication app ?

The somewhat new app 'Slack' is becoming a huge success, the reason for this being that it is a communication application that integrates several things including the popular drop box with it as well as it makes creating organised group easier. The app has doubled its value in 6 months, it is now worth over 2 billion dollars making Stewart Butterfield (the founder) a happy man.

The reason why the owner of slack created the app is because he realized businesses seem to be using several different methods of communicating such as email, drop box, text messages and many more. Therefore he realized that there was an opportunity to somewhat put several of the features that businesses use into one app that can be accessed on a mobile phone or a computer. Due to businesses being the reason why he created the app i think both the business community and Butterfield are accountable. The creation of the app has a good social impact since it brings people together making a better work environment since employees can message each other making it a good team communication app. The app is also 'perfectly in sync' between the users mobile device and computer.

Although the app seems like an amazing form of communication it does bring up a few questions about possible problems with the app. Since the app is used for internal communication within a business where employees and managers talk about business plans and private information about the business, it brings up the question "is my information safe?". If someone was able to hack the app and see other businesses private information the outcome would be horrible since the hacker will know every businesses plans that use the app at his/her fingertips, as well as if Butterfield might be secretly selling information about different businesses. A solution for this could be that the users must have a user name and password which will keep their information more secure.

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