why did Facebook pay 19 billion for WhatsApp?
Because they are going to use it for their cryptocurrency platform.
Global Remittances.
My mom just today asked me to download WhatsApp because she's living in Mexico and everyone their uses it to get in touch with their family in America. It is the built in-audience that will crush Western Union and it's exploitative 15% fees.
Back to the main topic, yeah, the content here isn't great and users highly overvalue their own content and undervalue others. It's a grand hypocrisy.
Blogging just isn't that valuable. I'm waiting for the real work to get done. The apps that allow this community to put in real work. Projects that fund themselves and get developed by the community. The platform will explode with exponential growth when that happens.