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..and "hacker" "news" continues to march towards conflating anecdotes with general trends/statistics. You are 1 American, not all Americans. Just because you d
by craftyguy 7y ago
..and "hacker" "news" continues to march towards conflating anecdotes with general trends/statistics.
You are 1 American, not all Americans. Just because you don't know anyone doesn't mean there isn't anyone.
- ceejayoz 7y agohttps://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/why-dont-americans-use-whatsapp/ https://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/why-dont-american... > But according to the Pew Research Center, the number of adults using Facebook plateaued in 2018, and WhatsApp user number decreased: Only 20% of U.S. adults use WhatsApp in 2019, down from 22% in 2018. This is vastly smaller than the 73% who use YouTube, and the 69% who use Facebook. The only social media network that was less popular in the U.S. was Reddit.
- craftyguy 7y ago20% of all US adults (hint: still millions of people) is quite a few.
- ceejayoz 7y agoPerhaps, but I’d suspect they’re disproportionately concentrated in expat communities - folks who need to communicate with family/friends back home. It’s not implausible that lots of Americans don’t know someone who uses WhatsApp. I only know one person, and they use it to talk to relatives in South America.
- sdinsn 7y agoWhich is why I was quite clear and specific when I said: "I don't know anybody". I encourage you to read more carefully in the future.
- craftyguy 7y agoI encourage you to share less anecdotes on 'hacker' 'news' that are clearly extreme corner cases.