Should Facebook buy Skype?

The Next Web makes the case:

The hardware vendor that Facebook is supposedly working with has also previously made Skype phones. While they’ve never really taken off in the US, VoIP phones are popular in other parts of the world (like the UK), and as we well know, Facebook is also a worldwide property.

On both Android and iOS, Skype and Facebook are almost default applications for many. The apps are constantly used by the carriers to promote their phones, and while we don’t have exact usage numbers per se, we’re positive that they are huge across numerous mobile platforms and devices. Skype does what it does extremely well, and Facebook does what it does extremely well, and other than chat functionality, they really don’t overlap much.

If there was a combined Skype/Facebook service, it would certainly be very tempting for not only myself but many others to go away from the Gmail/Google Voice graph that I’m tending to favor these days.