Here in India everyone uses WhatsApp, from grandmas and children to teachers, office workers and even Police officers. It serves versatile purposes, of hosting

Here in India everyone uses WhatsApp, from grandmas and children to teachers, office workers and even Police officers. It serves versatile purposes, of hosting both a chat platform and a social network for groups and has been so much ingrained in India's societies that "texting" literally means sending a WhatsApp message here. In state elections, WhatsApp is the main platform the ruling party (BJP) focused most of its campaigns on. With such a setup it is extremely difficult to move to another platform. The next popular platform is Telegram, but it is used mainly to share and access pirated movies and apps from shady channels than for everyday communication.