Below are the changes Facebook could possibly introduce to WhatsApp that would give long time users cause for un-liking.

1. Detailed registration: Since its inception, all that you need for signing up to WhatsApp is your mobile phone number. Simple. You’re almost anonymous. That’s unless a new type of registration is introduced in which you would have to fill in everything from your gender to your grandmother’s shoe size. And there would be good reason for requiring this level of user data.

2. Advertisements: There’s mixed chatter on the Internet whether WhatsApp would go against its previous assertions that advertising is not an option on its messaging system.

3. Incorporating FB style messaging features: On behalf of WhatsApp’s 450 million monthly users who also sometimes prefer to keep their whereabouts on the down-low, having a location functionality on WhatsApp; where speed of responses is sometimes essential, may just be the one additional setting we don’t want to have to think about.

4. Stalker alert: The target may be the “The Last Seen on” feature — which is actually both a boon and a bother, but more an advantage in its current form on WhatsApp.

5. Owning WhatsApp: When WhatsApp was down, activity on FB and Instagram (which FB acquired in 2013) increased. So essentially, FB now has more authority on your life. It’s got the power to brainwash us. You can now make people believe whatever you want with social media.