The big news yesterday was that Facebook bought the popular instant messaging service WhatsApp for over $16 billion. WhatsApp is one of the biggest messaging services out there, partly due to it being available on so many platforms. The service won't be getting Facebooked right away (if at all) — WhatsApp says the app will "remain autonomous and operate independently".
Now of course we're all BBM lovers here at CrackBerry, but we know that many of you choose to use WhatsApp as well. We also know that many of you don't like Facebook. So we're curious to know just who will be ditching WhatsApp in favor of another service (BBM, duh!) now that they are Facebook owned.
Hit up the poll below and let us know your deal, then sound off in the comment
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