WhatsApp provides phone-number-based messaging, and people asked, 'Isn't that what SMS is?' Yes, but SMS is expensive, antiquated, and what WhatsApp did was modernize and level that playing field. For example, in Europe, if France wants to talk to Belgium, it's extraordinary costly because of border and telecom charges.

You have a certain identity that you present to the world on Facebook, and you have a certain identity that you present with the telephone, and they are different.

It's not 100 per cent clear to me what's working about Snapchat.

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