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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Has just agreed to be taken over by Facebook for £10billion and has only 50 employees, that is going to be one hell of an office party! But how on earth it is worth that much is beyond me, is it any good?? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Has just agreed to be taken over by Facebook for £10billion and has only 50 employees, that is going to be one hell of an office party! But how on earth it is worth that much is beyond me, is it any good??"
I guess it will soon be full of pop up adverts, there will be charges for sending messages and the content of every message sent will be sold to some Nigerian spamer.  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"£10b? Are you sure?
Yes, it's $19bn. Stupid money but great for the 50 staff who all get a share.
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It is that much my calculator can't work out how much per employee! But it must be some sort of record. |
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By *igSuki81Man
over a year ago
Retirement Village |
"I thought it was 19b
Her"
it was 19b but in dollars, think the conversion to sterling brings it down to about 13b. still a ridiculous amount of money for nothing more than a massanger service.
Considering i hate facebook now and dont really leave anything on there thanks to the twat zuckermann selling all people privacy off under the pretence of "social networking" think i may have to abandon whatsapp too now, especially with the pics i send and receive |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"£10b? Are you sure?
Yes, it's $19bn. Stupid money but great for the 50 staff who all get a share.
$19b is what I'd heard reported. That's more than £10b, hence the question."
I always just sort of halve sterling/dollar numbers.  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"£10b? Are you sure?
Yes, it's $19bn. Stupid money but great for the 50 staff who all get a share.
$19b is what I'd heard reported. That's more than £10b, hence the question."
Foreign exchange was never my strong point! I thought it was $16bn but what is $3bn between friends  |
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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago
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"£10b? Are you sure?
Yes, it's $19bn. Stupid money but great for the 50 staff who all get a share.
$19b is what I'd heard reported. That's more than £10b, hence the question.
Foreign exchange was never my strong point! I thought it was $16bn but what is $3bn between friends "
About £1.4bn, since you ask! 
Easily lost down the back of the sofa... |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"£10b? Are you sure?
Yes, it's $19bn. Stupid money but great for the 50 staff who all get a share.
$19b is what I'd heard reported. That's more than £10b, hence the question.
Foreign exchange was never my strong point! I thought it was $16bn but what is $3bn between friends
About £1.4bn, since you ask!
Easily lost down the back of the sofa..."
Assuming it was divided equally between the 50 staff (it won't of course), I have just cost them about £30m each, poor little loves won't be able to survive!! But assuming they have all become millionaires today, if you were one of them, what would be the first thing you would buy? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I thought it was 19b
Her
it was 19b but in dollars, think the conversion to sterling brings it down to about 13b. still a ridiculous amount of money for nothing more than a massanger service.
Considering i hate facebook now and dont really leave anything on there thanks to the twat zuckermann selling all people privacy off under the pretence of "social networking" think i may have to abandon whatsapp too now, especially with the pics i send and receive "
I don't use that one much, your a bad boy, go to your room lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A good App until Zuckenberg bought it. I guess he was getting nervous at the thought of a company such as this threatening Facebook. Facebook is becoming another Microsoft - they simply buy up the competition. I still cannot work out what Facebook is about and why so many people are obsessed about publicising their private lives and personal data... |
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"A good App until Zuckenberg bought it. I guess he was getting nervous at the thought of a company such as this threatening Facebook. Facebook is becoming another Microsoft - they simply buy up the competition. I still cannot work out what Facebook is about and why so many people are obsessed about publicising their private lives and personal data..."
Yeah....why would anyone want to publish pics of themself online etc?   |
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"He's an idiot...I downloaded it for free Eat that Facebook!!!"
What phone have you got? If it's anything other than an iPhone it's only free for a year. Then you pay something like 69p a year fir it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"He's an idiot...I downloaded it for free Eat that Facebook!!!
What phone have you got? If it's anything other than an iPhone it's only free for a year. Then you pay something like 69p a year fir it. "
mine is free and I don't have an iphone |
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"He's an idiot...I downloaded it for free Eat that Facebook!!!
What phone have you got? If it's anything other than an iPhone it's only free for a year. Then you pay something like 69p a year fir it.
mine is free and I don't have an iphone "
How long have you had it? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"He's an idiot...I downloaded it for free Eat that Facebook!!!
What phone have you got? If it's anything other than an iPhone it's only free for a year. Then you pay something like 69p a year fir it.
mine is free and I don't have an iphone "
Agreed. There's nothing in the small print to say we pay x |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"He's an idiot...I downloaded it for free Eat that Facebook!!!
What phone have you got? If it's anything other than an iPhone it's only free for a year. Then you pay something like 69p a year fir it.
mine is free and I don't have an iphone
How long have you had it?"
2 maybe 3 years. Can't remember exactly but I've never paid anything for it |
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"He's an idiot...I downloaded it for free Eat that Facebook!!!
What phone have you got? If it's anything other than an iPhone it's only free for a year. Then you pay something like 69p a year fir it.
mine is free and I don't have an iphone
How long have you had it?
2 maybe 3 years. Can't remember exactly but I've never paid anything for it"
That's odd. Just checked the play store and itsays on tthere first year free only. Guess you are a lucky one lol I remember a lot of threads about it last year when people were getting reminders to pay. |
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By *horltzMan
over a year ago
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"He's an idiot...I downloaded it for free Eat that Facebook!!!
What phone have you got? If it's anything other than an iPhone it's only free for a year. Then you pay something like 69p a year fir it. "
But if you dont pay the 69p it comes back on after a couple of days , and the process repeats monthly |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"He's an idiot...I downloaded it for free Eat that Facebook!!!
What phone have you got? If it's anything other than an iPhone it's only free for a year. Then you pay something like 69p a year fir it.
But if you dont pay the 69p it comes back on after a couple of days , and the process repeats monthly"
mine never went off. I have a Nokia now. Had it on Blackberry first and didn't pay on there either. I have it for lifetime |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"He's an idiot...I downloaded it for free Eat that Facebook!!!
What phone have you got? If it's anything other than an iPhone it's only free for a year. Then you pay something like 69p a year fir it.
But if you dont pay the 69p it comes back on after a couple of days , and the process repeats monthly
mine never went off. I have a Nokia now. Had it on Blackberry first and didn't pay on there either. I have it for lifetime "
Unfortunately, it does state on the website that there is a fee after the first year. I never knew it  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"He's an idiot...I downloaded it for free Eat that Facebook!!!
What phone have you got? If it's anything other than an iPhone it's only free for a year. Then you pay something like 69p a year fir it.
But if you dont pay the 69p it comes back on after a couple of days , and the process repeats monthly
mine never went off. I have a Nokia now. Had it on Blackberry first and didn't pay on there either. I have it for lifetime
Unfortunately, it does state on the website that there is a fee after the first year. I never knew it "
I got mine through Nokia store |
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By *ugby 123Couple
over a year ago
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"A good App until Zuckenberg bought it. I guess he was getting nervous at the thought of a company such as this threatening Facebook. Facebook is becoming another Microsoft - they simply buy up the competition. I still cannot work out what Facebook is about and why so many people are obsessed about publicising their private lives and personal data...
Yeah....why would anyone want to publish pics of themself online etc? "
The difference with a site like this and FB is this is normally only a little information and not real names/ real workplaces/ pics of your kids and any information that people seem to think it safe to post.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Just goes to show how much value there is to what we write or send by someone out there..... It was a safe place too send messages ect... now who knows??? the bigger the money the more corrupt people seem to be & will sell out a principle for more ££€€¥®$$©©
Doesn't matter how much they get,,, I just can't believe its in billions!!!!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"He's an idiot...I downloaded it for free Eat that Facebook!!!
What phone have you got? If it's anything other than an iPhone it's only free for a year. Then you pay something like 69p a year fir it. "
This why they bought it. The revenue to gain from the users is massive. They are unlikely to chamge pricing model. But the news reckons that this service sends double the amount of nor.am sms messages now. So it is very.popular. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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there's other apps like kik though I've never tried them.I'm sure they could easily develop their own apps but watsapp is ready made so no advertising(which is costly)will be needed. |
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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago
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"Just goes to show how much value there is to what we write or send by someone out there..... It was a safe place too send messages ect... now who knows??? the bigger the money the more corrupt people seem to be & will sell out a principle for more ££€€¥®$$©©
Doesn't matter how much they get,,, I just can't believe its in billions!!!!! "
Absolutely. I wouldn't trust Facebook not to use it for data mining for profit or to compromise the privacy of the users for profit.
The original deveopers could have done that too, of course, but I'd suspect Facebook to be far more likely to, based on the way they run the site. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Has just agreed to be taken over by Facebook for £10billion and has only 50 employees, that is going to be one hell of an office party! But how on earth it is worth that much is beyond me, is it any good??
I guess it will soon be full of pop up adverts, there will be charges for sending messages and the content of every message sent will be sold to some Nigerian spamer. "
yes this is quite possible. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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It's worth the money for 3 reasons,
1 it's off the computer and onto phones
2 many users would have said YES to allowing access to users contacts (phone and email)
3 by fixing such a high price on it, it re-enforces facebooks high valuation. |
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"Absolutely. I wouldn't trust Facebook not to use it for data mining for profit or to compromise the privacy of the users for profit.
The original deveopers could have done that too, of course, but I'd suspect Facebook to be far more likely to, based on the way they run the site."
This (although we dont know the creators of whatsapp were already doing this this) is one of the reasons why i hate Facebook. Im not a happy bunny at this news and i guess i wont be using it for long.
Everything Zuckerberg touches turns to shit, Facebook and his buying and screwing around with Instagram, wont be long till Whatsapp joins them. |
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