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> creates app that leeches your contact list and spam people to o install the app in your name > post about hating advertising you can cut the irony/hypocrisy with a knife. what's next? a post about how he loves client interoperability? heh.
>Have you considered the alternative? Yes and they are better. i'm using Hangouts, Telegram and Line... why should I use WhatsApp? These App all have more functionalities and are "free".
> creates app that leeches your contact list and spam people to o install the app in your name > post about hating advertising you can cut the irony/hypocrisy with a knife. what's next? a post about how he loves client interoperability? heh.
Any references for this? I've been using Whatsapp for years and never saw them do this. I've spammed people, in person mostly, to install it back when Whatsapp wasn't ubiquitous where I lived yet, but that's it. I assume that's not what you meant.
I'm wondering why did facebook buy WhatsApp? Oh, maybe to get better data from us to sell... yeah, Ads.
There's a lot more opportunity to do messaging between businesses and individuals (eg. customer service) as well -- see messenger for business.
Not saying Facebook isn't out to sell ads, just that there's probably a lot of reasons that Facebook might want WhatsApp's technology and team. Especially as they try to move more conversations onto their platform and reach out into other markets.
Messaging/chat are inherently bad apps for advertising anyway. This post was also from 2012, before selling to Facebook for 19B.