Facebook + WhatsApp = The Ultimate Spying Machine?
Facebook, the popular social network with over 1.2 billion users world wide, just got a lot bigger by buying WhatsApp, the text messaging app with almost half a billion users across the globe. Add caption According to Mark Zuckerberg, Chairman & CEO of Facebook, the reason why Facebook paid $19 billion for WhatsApp is that there are not many other companies that can create a network of 1 billion users – and he believes WhatsApp will achieve that soon. WhatsApp doesn’t really fit into the Facebook business model because it has always promised its users that it won’t sell ads. So how will Facebook get a return on their $19 billion? I believe that the answer is: by mining the data within WhatsApp. Facebook is already a gigantic data mining paradise with unbelievable amounts of data at their disposal, all happily provided by us, the users of Facebook. We send 10 billion Facebook messages per day, click the ‘like’ button 4.5 billion times and upload 350 million new pict...