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s_kilk on Feb 20, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Numbers That Explain Why Facebook Acquired WhatsAp...

It's never really about the raw text itself, but the context. Facebook, Whatsapp, Forums, Twitter, SMS, Etc... are all just text but in radically different contexts. Something tells me we haven't seen the last of the innovations in good ol' plain-text.

kybernetikos on Feb 20, 2014 [–]

I really don't think plain text communication has innovated much since email and IRC.

The money is mainly about users. Facebook are buying users, not technology.

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