• PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Tell that to 99% of Europe where every idiot is using whatsap and the few who don’t are shunned. FML

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          10 months ago

          Well, WhatsApp is free (as in free beer). The price is contact book and metadata. And even if you did not use WhatsApp, others who use WhatsApp and have your contact already did half the job.

          We have a long way to go.

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      10 months ago

      It’s not (a majority of) he users’ fault as WhatsApp was its own company for a long time until they sold to Facebook. I was using WhatsApp long before it became a FB company. Everyone just continued to use it as FB was mostly hands off until they started imposing changes a few years later. But like every other messaging app, once someone is using it forever, it’s hard to move away from it because all their friends and family are using it and have no desire to switch to something else.

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      10 months ago

      Incorrect. In certain European countries it’s widely used, in others not so much. In the ones where it’s more widespread, I still think 99% is very much exaggerating. Maybe you didn’t mean it literally?