Data about WhatsApp users predictably leaked to the disposal of its owners, the social network Facebook. Now messenger will send subscribers a message allegedly from “interested” organizations. In other words, is spam advertising and other “messages on the business. As claimed by WhatsApp, send messages supposedly “will meet the interests of a particular person” — but we understand what it means.
Advertisers sold the opportunity to apply even, for example, to a particular customer of the Bank, with your name and surname.
In July 2015, the head of Facebook mark Zuckerberg said that it was time to monetize WhatsApp (Messenger): the main idea is to give businesses a free platform for unobtrusive user interaction and then gradually to introduce a fee for sponsorship materials.
For example, their social network founder explained that the first Facebook opened a paid opportunity for business to contact the friends of a particular user. Then, gradually, the network and users have come to a situation when it has become habitual of self-promotional videos. Similar gradual evolution is now scheduled for WhatsApp read more about this in the article Facebook “upgraded” WhatsApp spam is.
In February 2014, the founder of WhatsApp, Jan koum gave carte Blanche to Mark Zuckerberg: “We decided to enter into the partnership with Facebook because we have the same goals and vision of what we want to do.” At this point (it magically coincided with the sale of WhatsApp to Facebook for 4 billion cash, 12 billion Facebook shares and $ 3 billion in special notes for team Whatsapp), unity of purpose, it was still hard to believe. But the current chaos is easily predicted — we know that everything what reaches Zuckerberg into copaamerica, that is, ultimately, shit.
