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  • What's with the chain letters?

To begin with, I never really understood the point behind those when they first started showing up in religious communities, and I certainly don't understand them now. I open up my Whatsapp today, and BAM, almost every contact had sent me the exact same chain message, claiming that Whatsapp will no longer be free and that I have to forward this message to at least 10 contacts to remain an active user.

Now, my questions, what was the point of sending chain letters in the older days (I hear they go like 30 years back) and what's the point of doing this on say, Whatsapp? There is no actual profit of this, is there? In either case?
People are retarded. WhatsApp was never free, we got a 1 year free trial then we pay 1$ for the service. I guess the point of WhatsApp is to show how gullible people are and I guess people who started it will feel proud about themselves..
whatsapp is free on android, well till now.
Chain letters are stupid, no beneficial reason I can think of.
I'm not sure, but I think Google and Ovi already pay for your first year. After all, it's only 1$, right?
well i dont know if google is, but i finished the first year and they sent a memo that my subscription is renewed another year for free, same happened to anyone I know with an android and whatsapp for over a year.
Whatsapp has problems with their status system and some idiot just wrote himself a nice spam message. I'm filled up to my neck with these messages. People should look at it logically. If you were a multi million dollar company, would you shut down just from over-usage ?
Also, if you had control over an entire application to make it do anything, wouldn't you make an announcement more ...I don't know, practical? such as a pop up message ? Like you get sometimes ?

The same thing happened with Facebook in the beginning of 2012, where there were rumors that said Facebook will be shut down etc...

I am surprised how people believe such bull<insert bad word here>

Here's WhatsApp's twitter page saying how they have problems regarding their status system

https://twitter.com/wa_status
I'm in a group of about 23 people (My class). They actually believed it. I was ridiculing them for being so gullible.
The message claimed that there is an issue with the number of "usernames".
I instantly knew it was bullshit. They could theoretically support billions of billions of users. No one indexes users by their usernames.
Usernames are completely irrelevant.

These kinds of things reflect on how technologically impaired most people are.
Humanity has a bright future indeed.