Why WhatsApp Is My Favorite And Yours too

I still remember those days when we used to send letters to friends and relatives and wait for days and weeks for a reply. I even remember those lovely Christmas seasons when I used to sent a whole bunch of cards to everyone I know in this world and enjoy the fruits as beautiful cards in return. Today, you won’t find anyone writing letters or sending cards more often. I think these are the days of WhatsApp, and I do not mind telling the fact that WhatsApp has gracefully taken the chair of a postman.

Even in the midst of quick services like FaceBook Messenger, BBM, Skype, Google Hangouts (The once GTalk) iMessage or Line, you tend to choose WhatsApp the most, for passing a quick message to your friend, an urgent message to those at home or a reply to your client. The reason for this is quite simple. WhatsApp has got features that are easier to handle and you can pass on a message within split seconds to anyone in another corner of the world. And the highlight of this application is that it does not have any ads to irritate you. The reason why most of us reached out to WhatsApp was because it was much cheaper than text and it is free from ads. But I find it more quicker as it uses our phone number as its login id.

WhatsApp is a cross platform instant messaging app that can be used in devices for Android, iOS, Blackberry, Symbian and Windows Phone. Sorry if I missed out any. You are able to communicate with other WhatsApp users through text (That’s my favorite), images (I use it to poke my friends at the stroke of midnight), voice (not a fan of that one) and videos (Yeah! I use it often).

Today, we get all kinds of lovely, strange and funny messages right in a jiffy through this wonder app that was created years back, in 2009. It was created by Ian Koum, who is a Ukrainian immigrant in Mount View, California.

The Creator of WhatsApp, wanted to give the users of WhatsApp, the liberty to share different statuses to those in their circles. I do hate to find the status “I am busy” in any one of my friends’ status. But I do love to see a whole bunch of my favorites ready with the ‘Online’ mode. Yet another feature of WhatsApp is that you can get a look at the time your friend was online by checking the “Last seen” feature. Hey! You can even block your “Last seen” if you take a quick tour into the privacy settings. But unfortunately, you will also lose the liberty to peep into others’ “Last Seen.”

The reason why the creator of FaceBook opted to buy this “Wonder App” was because it was the most popular application that majority of people use these days. It took $19 Billion for Mark Zukerberg to get hold of the ownership of this Application, and that is $42 per active user. And I am happy to say that I am one among those active users for whom Zukerberg has invested $42 on. ;)