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I don't know about America, but here in the Netherlands, everyone has Whatsapp. Not just teens, my parents have it, cousins, basically everyone with a smartphone. Now, it needs to be noted that we have the highest percentage of Whatsapp users per capita (AFAIK), but it is the default messaging app. Especially groupchats are plentiful and while most conversations are just dicking around, it is very useful from time to time. And fuck, I liked Wapp in part because it wasn't Facebook. I wonder, is this a panicky buy by Facebook, fearing imminent decline? Or a social web bubble about to burst? 19 billion is a gigantic amount of money, that's for sure.