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I live in a country where WhatsApp is heavily used for all sorts of things (business communication, personal communication, ordering food from local restaurants
by jhugo 5y ago
I live in a country where WhatsApp is heavily used for all sorts of things (business communication, personal communication, ordering food from local restaurants, and so on). I was actually surprised by how utterly replaceable it proved to be during this outage. I don't know anyone who doesn't have at least two or three messenger apps installed anyway, and since most work by the phone number, it's pretty seamless to switch to another.
- sidereturn 5y agoI find phone number systems difficult as I use a classic phone. FB messenger seems to be broken in browser on Android too. So ironically this is hard for me. I had to jump hoops getting signal onto an android. So I am stuck in email. Once xmmp felt usable.
- OneLeggedCat 5y agoIn your country, which messenger did most of you default to?
- jhugo 5y agoThere's a local one which a lot of people already have installed even if they don't use it most of the time. A lot of people have Telegram installed too. WhatsApp / FB Messenger are the most popular but if they're down, between those two you would have most people covered.