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"was $32 per user. ", ah no it's not mr. weak DD. $50 per ACTIVE users, who cares about having or claiming you 450 million(nice round fuzzy number there too) users if the other 180 million are not active or shill accounts.

What are you talking about? WhatsApp has 450 million ACTIVE monthly users. Where are you pulling these numbers out of? You want some DD? Here's a quote from Sequia Capital's blog (WhatsApp's investors):

WhatsApp has more than 450 million active users, and reached that number faster than any other company in history. It was just nine months ago that WhatsApp announced 200 million active users, which was already more than Twitter. Every day, more than a million people install the app and start chatting, and they remain more engaged with WhatsApp than on any other service. Incredibly, the number of daily active users of WhatsApp (compared to those who log in every month) has climbed to 72%. In contrast the industry standard is between 10% and 20%, and only a handful of companies top 50%." Link: http://sequoiacapital.tumblr.com/post/77211282835/four-numbers-that-explain-why-facebook-acquired

They have the entire world (pretty much, except for Asia) locked up with their messenger.

Right, the rest of the world is only 320 million people besides Asia. Seems you are not only weak in DD, but practitioner of fuzzy math too.

By world I meant the messenger market. And yes, WhatsApp does have the market captured except in Asia.

Also, only fools pay to use a messaging system when there are so many free ones out there now.

So everyone is a fool for paying for SMS? And all of the WhatsApp users must be fools for paying for a service that they derive value from? $1 per year is hardly a lot of money to have real-time messaging with your friends and family across the globe. If they are paying how can you argue with this? Facebook will now have the #1 social networking app and the #1 messaging app... the KINGS of connecting the world. You can't argue that.

And now on top of that agree to Facebook's TOS which includes being able to read your messages and data mine them.

Huh? No one has said that they have to agree to the Facebook TOS. In fact, they have said the opposite and said they are not changing the product and plan to grow it to over a billion users with the same exact model. Why do you just make stuff up?

Explain, why FB tanked afterhours after the announcement that they spent $16 billion to buy Whatsapp? If, the deal is so good why is wall st. selling into it?

Because people like you don't understand Facebook or their vision for connecting the world.