I must admit that there were actually no new words for me in this piece of news and yeah, I agree that it would be ridiculous to pretend there were some by putting basic vocabulary on here...
Having said that, please, proceed quickly. Facebook might buy my blog before you finish reading this post. And if Facebook buys it, it can only get worse. #antihipstermainstreampositioning #instairony
Well, I guess everyone has already heard about that. Facebook bought Whatsapp for... peanuts, just some 19 billion US dollars... That was probably Mark Zuckerberg's toilet paper.
One of the WhatsApp co-founders will work together with Facebook and apperently they are quite excited about their upcoming cooperation.
I don't know. Personally, I've never been a big fan of Facebook. Actually, I'm not really into social media at all. Don't get me wrong, I think the technological advances in the field of communication are amazing and the possibilities they grant us are extremely valuable and deserve respect. But. People overdo things. People get too excited about things. People put more life into social media than into their lives. And what's worst: social pressure urges you to do the same.
For example, I've noticed that, sometimes, I'm not in the mood to talk to people on WhatsApp but even though I answer. The thing is, once I connect into the app, I have to answer all the messages because if not, people begin to have existential crisis: they think I ignore them, that I don't recognise them as people anymore or whatever. And you know what? When somebody has gone online without responding me, I REACT EXACTLY THE SAME. And it scares me because I perfectly know it's absurd. But I just can't help feeling that way. It's creepy. I don't like it.
Then Facebook... I mean, it's basic function is to inform and get informed about anything people you're supposed to know do, right? Well, I don't care for 99,999999999% of the rubbish these people post on Facebook. Of course I do have an interest to hear about my close friends' experiencies and how they feel about it and blablabla. But do I need/want to hear that stuff from EVERYONE IN MY SCHOOL? Definitely not. Then some smartasses come along and say that they don't care for those people either. And then you have a look at their profiles and see that they've got 1046 friends. By the mercy of God, what is the point of it? You invest time in something you're not even really interested in.
WhatsApp at least is quite functional since it allows you to talk easily to people and that's all. No additional decoration or futile extras. Although I believe that many users rely too much on WhatsApp without realising. To them, WhatsApp is the first way of communication BEFORE face-to-face talking...
And now Facebook comes around the corner and, after doing the same with Instagram, they go and buy WhatsApp. Because why not. I don't really see how a collaboration between Facebook and WhatsApp can give birth to any good new features. The worst case scenario would be a link between your FB and your WA account. Because if that happened, WhatsApp would be dead as we know it currently and as I relatively appreciate it right now.
Did you know Facebook also wanted to buy Snapchat?
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| At least HE should be happy, I guess... |
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