WhatsApp Review

WhatsApp was founded by Jan Koum and Brian Acton who had previously spent 20 years combined at Yahoo. The App joined Facebook in 2014, but continues to operate as a separate app with a laser focus on building a messaging service that works fast and reliably anywhere in the world.

More than 1 billion people in over 180 countries use WhatsApp1 to stay in touch with friends and family, anytime and anywhere. WhatsApp is free2 and offers simple, secure, reliable messaging and calling, available on phones all over the world.

Not too long ago all of us who had a mobile device communicated thanks to text messages, which today many people do not even know what they are, and calls. With the arrival of smartphones, instant messaging applications also appeared, which allow us to communicate, free of charge, by sending text messages, even having the option of sending images, videos or the increasingly popular voice notes .

Among all the applications of this type that are available in the market, stands out by far above all WhatsApp, which has millions of users around the world, and especially with a huge number of options and functionalities.

Of course, it is not the only existing option, as we also find Telegram, Line or BlackBerry Messenger, which have a great popularity worldwide.

Its success was such from the first moment, that it was acquired by Facebook for a huge amount of money, after a big bid between some of the most important companies in the Internet sector. At present, and despite being owned by the most popular social network in the world, they follow different paths, which at the moment have not come together, as predicted by many experts.

One of the most interesting aspects of WhatsApp, and where part of its success resides, is simplicity. And it is that anyone, without too much knowledge or experience in the world of mobile telephony can use this instant messaging application. From a list of contacts, which will be downloaded from the phone book of our phone, we can choose one and send a text message, which will reach its recipient in a few seconds.

Another of the strengths of the instant messaging application is the high number of users it has, which means that practically any friend or family member uses this application, which makes it extremely easy and convenient to communicate with them. Other applications of this type, have a smaller number of users which makes it more complicated that all our contacts have that particular application to be able to send messages or images.

In the less positive aspects of WhatsApp we find the innumerable problems that have suffered in recent years, related to the privacy of user data, the untimely drops in service, or the huge controversy that arose when the application began charge for the use of the service, something that very soon went down in history.

WhatsApp may not be the best instant messaging application of how many are available in the market, but it is the one with the largest number of users, which really makes it the most downloaded and used instant messaging application worldwide, both in iOS and Android. Now it only needs to improve in various aspects to become not only the most used courier service, but also the best one.

Are you a regular user of WhatsApp or do you opt instead for another of the many applications of this type that are available in the market ?.