<p>Facebook is under siege from every direction. SnapChat's picking away at the young sexting market, Twitter dominated TV sets at the Superbowl, and Path is building a tiny fortress for close friends. That's not all the one-billion-user giant's got nuclear warheads from Asia to watch out for too.</p><p>Asia is now a crucial battleground in the mobile messaging wars. Both in terms of user-base, and because so many innovating social apps are being built in the region. One third of all Viber users are in Asia, Facebook Messenger is visibly becoming more like China's WeChat, and the originally Netherlands-based Nimbuzz moved its headquarters to India.</p><p>Even Kik, the Canada-based mobile messaging app with over 30-million users in America and Europe, has started to include more multimedia content in its app, a feature the CEO admits he was observing in Asian apps first. And then there's Line from Japan and KakaoTalk from Korea, which are both platforms for social gaming. Facebook really is under attack from every direction.</p><p>In my mobile messaging app list, I outlined most of the features that make these apps special. Stickers, broader social media integration, microblogging, mobile gaming, celebrity accounts, and monetization all seem trivial at first, but are actually hammering at Facebook's empire.</p><p><a href="http://memeburn.com/2013/02/why-facebook-should-be-very-very-worried-about-asian-messaging-apps/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.malaya.com.ph/index.php/business/business-news/24758-facebook-trekking-a-rough-road">Facebook: Trekking a rough road</a> (Malaya)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dP-UdeqzEPpGwSML7o32Gp7yla4zM&ned=us">4 additional articles.</a></p>