Here Are Some Things Facebook Could Have Bought Instead of Whatsapp for $16 Billion

As you may have heard, Facebook purchased the mobile messenger Whatsapp for a whopping $16 billion dollars this week, equating to over $40 per user of the program. What is Whatsapp, you ask? Take a trip back in your brain to 2002. Remember AOL Instant Messenger? mIRC? Miranda? Yeah, it's that but on your phone. That's it.

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