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A lot of people in America uses WhatsApp. It's by far the most popular messaging platform in Brazil[0][1]. In other places in South and Central America it's al
by cassianoleal 7y ago
A lot of people in America uses WhatsApp.
It's by far the most popular messaging platform in Brazil[0][1]. In other places in South and Central America it's also about as popular as in Brazil, so I suspect the majority of internet-connected people in America use it.
That said, WhatsApp is not a tool I use mostly on the computer to talk to my tech friends and co-workers, where I need efficient ways to communicate both using pre-formatted/code lines and in natural language, where things like bold, italic, quotes, etc become important tools to convey the right message.
[0] https://labs.ebanx.com/en/articles/special/whatsapp-in-brazil/ https://labs.ebanx.com/en/articles/special/whatsapp-in-brazi...
[1] https://hbr.org/2016/04/the-rise-of-whatsapp-in-brazil-is-about-more-than-just-messaging https://hbr.org/2016/04/the-rise-of-whatsapp-in-brazil-is-ab...
- umanwizard 7y agoIn English, “America” refers to the USA, 99.9% of the time. (This is not just true in the US but also in the UK and I am pretty sure other English-speaking countries too). What is called “América” in Spanish and Portuguese, we call “the Americas” and consider to be two continents (North America and South America), not one. I have no opinion on which usage is “correct”. Just pointing out that the person you’re replying to almost certainly used “America” to mean the USA, not the land mass that includes Brazil.