Money Talks: Who's Afraid of Facebook's WhatsApp Deal?

$19 billion is an absurd amount of money to present to 55 people. That's the subtext below most of the outraged, stunned, and/or cheerleading reactions to Wednesday's news that Facebook was buying WhatsApp in the largest and strangest tech world buyout since AOL snapped up TimeWarner in 2000

You think this many people are fascinated by what this means for the future of messaging or Facebook corporate strategy? Nope. Deep down, either with doe-eyed dreams of what we'd spend it on or a creeping horror at the gaudy zeros on that number, we're all following the money.