Post-Facebook generation taps into messaging apps

Create personal profiles. Build networks of friends. Share photos, videos and music.

That might sound precisely like Facebook, but hundreds of millions of technology-savvy young people have instead turned to a wave of smartphone-based messaging apps that are sweeping across North America, Asia and Europe.

The hot apps include Kik and Whatsapp, both products of North American start-ups, as well as Kakao's KakaoTalk, NHN's Line and Tencent's WeChat, which have blossomed in Asia.

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