Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted on his Wall, explaining why he bought WhatsApp.
The text of the letter is given below:
Our mission is to make the world more open and connected. We do this
by building services that help people share any type of content with
any group of people they want. WhatsApp will help us do this by
continuing to develop a service that people around the world love to use
every day.
WhatsApp is a simple, fast and reliable
mobile messaging service that is used by over 450 million people on
every major mobile platform. More than 1 million people sign up for
WhatsApp every day and it is on its way to connecting one billion
people. More and more people rely on WhatsApp to communicate with all of
their contacts every day.
WhatsApp will continue to
operate independently within Facebook. The product roadmap will remain
unchanged and the team is going to stay in Mountain View. Over the next
few years, we're going to work hard to help WhatsApp grow and connect
the whole world. We also expect that WhatsApp will add to our efforts
forInternet.org, our partnership to make basic internet services
affordable for everyone.
WhatsApp will complement our
existing chat and messaging services to provide new tools for our
community. Facebook Messenger is widely used for chatting with your
Facebook friends, and WhatsApp for communicating with all of your
contacts and small groups of people. Since WhatsApp and Messenger serve
such different and important uses, we will continue investing in both
and making them each great products for everyone.
WhatsApp
had every option in the world, so I'm thrilled that they chose to work
with us. I'm looking forward to what Facebook and WhatsApp can do
together, and to developing great new mobile services that give people
even more options for connecting.
I've also known Jan
for a long time, and I know that we both share the vision of making the
world more open and connected. I'm particularly happy that Jan has
agreed to join the Facebook board and partner with me to shape
Facebook's future as well as WhatsApp's.
Jan and the
WhatsApp team have done some amazing work to connect almost half a
billion people. I can't wait for them to join Facebook and help us
connect the rest of the world.
What do you think?
