WhatsApp: A Facebook company’s influence?

The current topic that's making trending news is the new privacy policy update by Whatsapp: a facebook company. This is due to the new privacy that WhatsApp users had to accept on the 8th of Jan 2021 and had up until the 8th of Feb 2021 without which they will not be able to use the popular messaging app that they have been using for a good 10 years before today.

Whatsapp is so ingrained in our daily lives that it has become a term that we use to ask people to communicate with us on regular basis gone are the days where people say text me or send me an SMS but it’s WhatsApp me which has become the new norm from which we as a generation have moved onto its such an important aspect of life that without it we seem lost to connect with one another without such apps.

Facebook had acquired Whatsapp in 2014 for $16 billion: $4 billion in cash and $12 billion remaining in Facebook shares where they bought each user for around $55 each where we did not get paid for but it saw our value what data we can provide to Facebook and how much we were worth at the time but it's not data they wanted its data points or metadata the data about data which is even more valuable to them.

With the new privacy policy what WhatsApp aims to do is share metadata it collects about us to Facebook so that we can be served better ads.