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I was a bit "shocked" by that when I moved to the Netherlands, everyone there uses it and the government seems to have a responsibility in that. Between the sig
by tsukurimashou 6y ago
I was a bit "shocked" by that when I moved to the Netherlands, everyone there uses it and the government seems to have a responsibility in that. Between the signs like you said and the possibility to contact town hall to take an appointment and other government related services via Whatsapp (I can certainly get why people use it, because it's much more convenient that having to make a phone call).
- jcul 6y agoIn Ireland it's the same, everyone uses WhatsApp. If I share my number with someone, it would be much stranger for me to receive an SMS from them than a WhatsApp message. If I phone a tradesman, e.g. a plumber, and they ask for a picture of a job, the photo will be sent using whatsapp. It's ubiquitous and it's assumed that if you're have a phone you have WhatsApp. The only people I can think of that don't use it are my wife's grandparents, they use Facebook messenger for that purpose. Back when people were switching to signal a lot of people cited the fact that signal needed a phone number as a reason not to use it, instead recommending session, threema, matrix. But if signal didn't tie your account to your phone number there's no way I would have convinced any of my contacts to switch. Having to exchange username or user IDs wouldn't have cut it, with whatsapp the service is deeply associated with you phone number and that's what people want.
- wackget 6y agoThe same has happened with Zoom in many countries.