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I live in the bay area in the US and whatsapp is the default way of communicating here as well

• SllX 4y ago
  Not as default as you might think. I made the attempt to get some non-technical friends on WhatsApp years back, and near as I can tell, none of them are on it at all. In fact, most of them never stopped using Snapchat and iMessage is basically dominant.
• brundolf 4y ago
  Interesting. I live in Texas and I've used it like... once, many years ago (haven't had it installed on my last two phones). Defaults for me and mine are SMS (iMessage when available), Discord, and then I've got a couple people on Signal
  • baby 4y ago
    I try to avoid iMessage because when I'm abroad I never know if it's going to fallback on SMS and I'll have to pay for a text
    • brundolf 4y ago
      Makes sense, I don't go abroad very often
    • sgt 4y ago
      That shows as soon as you see the field though. So pretty easy to see if it will deliver as SMS.
• JohnFen 4y ago
  Interesting. I'm not in the bay area, but I am in the US. I use whatsapp, but purely to talk with my friends who are in Europe. None of my bay area friends (or anywhere else in the US) are using it.