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Whatsapp as we all know is an internationally available cross platform, instant messaging and Voice over IP service application. While it comes with a plethora of benefits, it also has its flaws that is directly or indirectly affecting the user's lives.


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The whatsapp status feature was introduced to users on 24th february (coinciding with whatsapp's 8th birthday) that allows users to share photos/videos with their contacts on whatsapp. While intention behind this was to introduce a fun element into the user's lives but in due course of time, it has changed the very fabric of human relationships and motivations. In other words, this has completely changed the way we have been communicating with each other.

In the current era, Birthday, Anniversary and Marriage wishes and even physical presence at these events are not considered enough - if the well wisher doesn't update his/her whatsapp status with the wishes accompanied by photographs/videos for 24 hours. People now-a-days get offended or they would not consider you a good friend/wellwisher if you don't wish them on your status.

Another aspect that has been observed is whatsapp users leverage this status utility of whatsapp to express their frustrations, mood - happiness/sadness/Anger, Political preferences/views in the form of posts or videos. The reason behind this behavior are many. Let us understand this one by one.

1. Instant Gratification: The need for instant gratification stems from social needs like affiliation, social approval, lack of respect in family circle & mutual recognition. This utility has become a wonderful medium for these kind of people to garner attention and distract them from own feeling of insecurity and lonliness.

2. Lack of Ability to Change Things: When a person on a sub-conscious level foresees the reality that he/she cannot change things at their homes, offices, states and country, they share their feelings (which in real world - they can't) over their whatsapp status. If the same person is asked to speak/debate in front of a crowd, they would generally be hesitant to the same as they would either lack guts or would avoid putting face to face arguements and dialogues to put their points forward. When these people share their thoughts on this utility and discover that they have been seen by the target audiences - the former gets a feeling of satisfaction that their word/opinion has been heard but what they forget is that this is like a monologue (with no counter arguement) made from the comforts of their homes. This is like a pleasure that doesn't last long.

3. Relationship: Most of us have relationship issues but thanks to these social media utilities that we have forgotten to sit on a table and sort out differences, instead, people search for quotes on the internet, that resonates with their situation the most and put them on their statuses - targeting the individual (they have differences with). If one gets into deeper meaning behind this behavioral pattern. it becomes apparent that people indulging in these kind of activities don't really have the guts to talk upfront, they are aware that there is no risk of people coming after them as the post is generic and is not pointed out to any specific individual. This further strains the relationship as the status viewer keeps guessing, whom the status was targeted for.

A recent study by Facebook revealed that people who share status about their relationship are insecure. Research also indicates that these status updates are not necessarily 100% reflective of reality of their situation. People post in order to get a reaction and most of them crave for support.

It is very important to understand for the status viewer that these status updates is not a documentation of the user's (user posting updates on status) life. These statuses should never be taken on heart and one should never compare oneself to lives of others based on these status activities.

In addition to this, status updates can expose one's personal life, feelings and make him/her vulnerable to exploitation. Henceforth, one should refrain from posting sensitive content on social media platforms and understand the fact that anything and everything on social media is not true.

WhatsApp (officially WhatsApp Messenger) is an instant messaging (IM) and voice-over-IP (VoIP) service owned by technology conglomerate Meta.[14] It allows users to send text, voice messages and video messages,[15] make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other content.[16][17] WhatsApp's client application runs on mobile devices, and can be accessed from computers.[18] The service requires a cellular mobile telephone number to sign up.[19] In January 2018, WhatsApp released a standalone business app called WhatsApp Business which can communicate with the standard WhatsApp client.[20][21]

The service was created by WhatsApp Inc. of Mountain View, California, which was acquired by Facebook in February 2014 for approximately US$19.3 billion.[22][23] It became the world's most popular messaging application by 2015,[24][25] and had more than 2 billion users worldwide by February 2020,[26] confirmed four years later by new 200M registrations per month.[27] By 2016, it had become the primary means of Internet communication in regions including Latin America, the Indian subcontinent, and large parts of Europe and Africa.[24]

WhatsApp was founded in February 2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum, former employees of Yahoo! A month earlier, after Koum purchased an iPhone, he and Acton decided to create an app for the App Store. The idea started off as an app that would display statuses in a phone's Contacts menu, showing if a person was at work or on a call.[63]

Their discussions often took place at the home of Koum's Russian friend Alex Fishman in West San Jose. They realized that to take the idea further, they would need an iPhone developer. Fishman visited RentACoder.com, found Russian developer Igor Solomennikov, and introduced him to Koum.[63]

Koum named the app WhatsApp to sound like "what's up". On February 24, 2009, he incorporated[64] WhatsApp Inc. in California. However, when early versions of WhatsApp kept crashing, Koum considered giving up and looking for a new job. Acton encouraged him to wait for a "few more months".[63]

Koum updated WhatsApp so that everyone in the user's network would be notified when a user's status changed. This new facility, to Koum's surprise, was used by users to ping "each other with jokey custom statuses like, 'I woke up late' or 'I'm on my way.'"[63]

Although Acton was working on another startup idea, he decided to join the company.[28] In October 2009, Acton persuaded five former friends at Yahoo! to invest $250,000 in seed funding, and Acton became a co-founder and was given a stake. He officially joined WhatsApp on November 1.[28] Koum then hired a friend in Los Angeles, Chris Peiffer, to develop a BlackBerry version, which arrived two months later.[28] Subsequently, WhatsApp for Symbian OS was added in May 2010, and for Android OS in August 2010.[65] In 2010 Google made multiple acquisition offers for WhatsApp, which were all declined.[66]

To cover the cost of sending verification texts to users, WhatsApp was changed from a free service to a paid one. In December 2009, the ability to send photos was added to the iOS version. By early 2011, WhatsApp was one of the top 20 apps in the U.S. Apple App Store.[28]

By February 2013, WhatsApp had about 200 million active users and 50 staff members. Sequoia invested another $50 million, and WhatsApp was valued at $1.5 billion.[28] Some time in 2013[70] WhatsApp acquired Santa Clara-based startup SkyMobius, the developers of Vtok,[71] a video and voice calling app.[72]

On February 19, 2014, one year after a venture capital financing round at a $1.5 billion valuation,[75] Facebook, Inc. (now Meta Platforms) announced it was acquiring WhatsApp for US$19 billion, its largest acquisition to date.[23] At the time, it was the largest acquisition of a venture-capital-backed company in history.[22] Sequoia Capital received an approximate 5,000% return on its initial investment.[76] Facebook, which was advised by Allen & Co, paid $4 billion in cash, $12 billion in Facebook shares, and, advised by Morgan Stanley, an additional $3 billion in restricted stock units granted to WhatsApp's founders Koum and Acton.[77] Employee stock was scheduled to vest over four years subsequent to closing.[23] Days after the announcement, WhatsApp users experienced a loss of service, leading to anger across social media.[78]

The acquisition was influenced by the data provided by Onavo, Facebook's research app for monitoring competitors and trending usage of social activities on mobile phones, as well as startups that were performing "unusually well".[79][80][81]

At a keynote presentation at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February 2014, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp was closely related to the Internet.org vision.[84][85] A TechCrunch article said about Zuckerberg's vision:

Three days after announcing the Facebook purchase, Koum said they were working to introduce voice calls. He also said that new mobile phones would be sold in Germany with the WhatsApp brand, and that their ultimate goal was to be on all smartphones.[86]

In August 2014, WhatsApp was the most popular messaging app in the world, with more than 600 million users.[87] By early January 2015, WhatsApp had 700 million monthly users and over 30 billion messages every day.[88] In April 2015, Forbes predicted that between 2012 and 2018, the telecommunications industry would lose $386 billion because of "over-the-top" services like WhatsApp and Skype.[89] That month, WhatsApp had over 800 million users.[90][91] By September 2015, it had grown to 900 million;[92] and by February 2016, one billion.[93] 152ee80cbc

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