>>>>>Here in the Netherlands almost everybody who used Whatsapp is replacing it by Telegram. How about you all in the States and other countries?
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>>>>Not much here so far but someone knows something about it as Mark Z. just purchased it for 19 billions!
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>>>Weird. Here in Europe almost ALL people think it's ridiculous what Zuckerberg and the owner (Jan Koum) of Whatsapp did. They esp. fear the fact that Zuckerberg gets all their telephone numbers and insight in their really private contacts. It is pure greed of Koum that he actually sold Wapp. Sergey Brin of Google has asked him one week earlier not to sell to Facebook, simply because he (Brin) fears that Zuckerberg will become too powerful. And that is not merely jealousy.
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>>>If Facebook also has all the telephone data (who you contact, when, how often) and combines this info with the data it already has, it gets far too much insight in our private life. We in Europe are increasingly becoming aware of this all and we don't like that. There has been a mass migration to esp. Telegram, one of the other messaging apps.
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>>I am sure $19 billion is pretty persuasive. That is 19 Instagrams, and people thought Facebook was overpaying for them.
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>Apart from what actually triggered me to start this thread, don't you think it is simply ridiculous, that amount of money?!

>Is there ANY programmer in the world worth that much money?

ME! ME ME! hahahaha