After launching whatsapp, and when facebook took it over, it is like a part of our life, you can stay in touch with your family members, and your friends. It has now voice and video call feature and these days when internet is very cheap, one no need to turn on its mobiles normal calling feature when you can always see your family and friends all the time you make a call.
Now they have added a new feature where you can put up your status and it will turn off/remove automatically after 24 hr. They no more save our chat history and it is now encrypted, so no need to worry about your information get leaked to anyone.
You can now share gif, and pdf, along with images and videos, so I think it is taking over email services slowly and there will a time come when you no more talk about sending email, you are going to say, send me a whatsapp and I think it has started because now every company also share there whatsapp no. along with there other contact details. Future is here now.