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I agree with you, whatsapp is not like Tinder or Facebook you don't open it every 2 minutes to check if there is something new.

by polote 9y ago

koolba 9y ago
Do you really check Tinder for new "content" every two minutes?
- polote 9y ago
  > The company said that, on average, people log into the app 11 times a day https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/30/fashion/tinder-the-fast-growing-dating-app-taps-an-age-old-truth.html?&_r=1 https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/30/fashion/tinder-the-fast-g... But yes not every 2 minutes
  - vincentkriek 9y ago
    WhatsApp will definitely be opened more than 11 times a day. I would argue the average is a lot closer to 11 times an hour than 11 times a day.
vegbrasil 9y ago
It is in a lot of countries.
raarts 9y ago
That depends on the country. In the US, people still tend to text a lot, but in most of Europe, Whatsapp totally replaced texting.
- rconti 9y ago
  Is this because of their still-utterly-broken roaming model? (supposedly to be remedied soon)
  - notzorbo3 9y ago
    It's probably a combination of high cost of texts at the time when Whatsapp became popular, no limit (or much larger limit) to the size of texts, a reasonable probability of texts not arriving or arriving late and a "fuck telcos for squeezing millions of euros from their users for no other reason than to turn massive profits from texting" attitude.
  - morsch 9y ago
    Soon was June 2017. But I doubt it has anything to do with roaming. Maybe more people paid per SMS for a longer time than in the US? I know I still do; I could add unlimited messages to my monthly contract for 1 EUR or so, but what's the point.
    - rconti 9y ago
      Interesting. My assumption was that Europe was much more okay with pay-per-use than the US was. It was always strange to someone in the US that a European would pay different amounts for a call depending on what kind of phone you were calling, where in the US both parties simply paid for their airtime if they wanted to use mobile phones. SMS took off faster in Europe than in the US, but we've had bundled packages for so long that the individual cost per text wasn't such an issue, and now on many plans they're unlimited. I guess the differing cost structure depending on who you're texting and from where may have spurred the adoption of WhatsApp, whereas in the US, even if you WERE paying per text, it was the same across a territory of many thousands of miles and hundreds of millions of people. And, the same way that many folks in the US do not even have a passport, they tend also not to have a reason to text internationally. The size and homogeneity of the country benefits the adoptions of some technologies, but hinders the adoption of others.
    - rconti 9y ago
      Cool! http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2017/04/25-free-roaming-from-june/ http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2017/...
  - paganel 9y ago
    It's also because it's much easier sending photos and live recordings using whatsapp compared to any other app outhere (FB is too clunky, the rest of the apps don't have a critical mass in most of Europe.
- ClassyJacket 9y ago
  Right, but you don't need to "check" it since it has notifications.
- kowdermeister 9y ago
  I never noticed it I don't know anybody at the company using it plus nobody ever asked my why I'm not on WhatsApp.
- _Tev 9y ago
  Source? Just last week I had to explain what whatsapp IS to my friend ... And he is young, what about older generation?
notzorbo3 9y ago
That's even worse, because it makes it easier to correlate when two people are Whatsapping with each other. If they both happen to be online at the same time a lot...
poisonarena 9y ago
I live in Colombia, before then Mexico, and yes you do check on it every 2 minutes everyone does, at least in Latin America
- parthdesai 9y ago
  Same in India.
avip 9y ago
That's a per-country thing. There are countries where Whatsapp is the de-facto standard for passing information.

I agree with you, whatsapp is not like Tinder or Facebook you don't open it every 2 minutes to check if there is something new.

by polote 9y ago

I agree with you, whatsapp is not like Tinder or Facebook you don't open it every 2 minutes to check if there is something new.

koolba 9y ago

Do you really check Tinder for new "content" every two minutes?

polote 9y ago
> The company said that, on average, people log into the app 11 times a day https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/30/fashion/tinder-the-fast-growing-dating-app-taps-an-age-old-truth.html?&_r=1 https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/30/fashion/tinder-the-fast-g... But yes not every 2 minutes
- vincentkriek 9y ago
  WhatsApp will definitely be opened more than 11 times a day. I would argue the average is a lot closer to 11 times an hour than 11 times a day.

vegbrasil 9y ago

It is in a lot of countries.

raarts 9y ago

That depends on the country. In the US, people still tend to text a lot, but in most of Europe, Whatsapp totally replaced texting.

rconti 9y ago
Is this because of their still-utterly-broken roaming model? (supposedly to be remedied soon)
- notzorbo3 9y ago
  It's probably a combination of high cost of texts at the time when Whatsapp became popular, no limit (or much larger limit) to the size of texts, a reasonable probability of texts not arriving or arriving late and a "fuck telcos for squeezing millions of euros from their users for no other reason than to turn massive profits from texting" attitude.
- morsch 9y ago
  Soon was June 2017. But I doubt it has anything to do with roaming. Maybe more people paid per SMS for a longer time than in the US? I know I still do; I could add unlimited messages to my monthly contract for 1 EUR or so, but what's the point.
  - rconti 9y ago
    Interesting. My assumption was that Europe was much more okay with pay-per-use than the US was. It was always strange to someone in the US that a European would pay different amounts for a call depending on what kind of phone you were calling, where in the US both parties simply paid for their airtime if they wanted to use mobile phones. SMS took off faster in Europe than in the US, but we've had bundled packages for so long that the individual cost per text wasn't such an issue, and now on many plans they're unlimited. I guess the differing cost structure depending on who you're texting and from where may have spurred the adoption of WhatsApp, whereas in the US, even if you WERE paying per text, it was the same across a territory of many thousands of miles and hundreds of millions of people. And, the same way that many folks in the US do not even have a passport, they tend also not to have a reason to text internationally. The size and homogeneity of the country benefits the adoptions of some technologies, but hinders the adoption of others.
  - rconti 9y ago
    Cool! http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2017/04/25-free-roaming-from-june/ http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2017/...
- paganel 9y ago
  It's also because it's much easier sending photos and live recordings using whatsapp compared to any other app outhere (FB is too clunky, the rest of the apps don't have a critical mass in most of Europe.
ClassyJacket 9y ago
Right, but you don't need to "check" it since it has notifications.
kowdermeister 9y ago
I never noticed it I don't know anybody at the company using it plus nobody ever asked my why I'm not on WhatsApp.
_Tev 9y ago
Source? Just last week I had to explain what whatsapp IS to my friend ... And he is young, what about older generation?

notzorbo3 9y ago

That's even worse, because it makes it easier to correlate when two people are Whatsapping with each other. If they both happen to be online at the same time a lot...

poisonarena 9y ago

I live in Colombia, before then Mexico, and yes you do check on it every 2 minutes everyone does, at least in Latin America

parthdesai 9y ago
Same in India.

avip 9y ago

That's a per-country thing. There are countries where Whatsapp is the de-facto standard for passing information.