3 ms·
Everybody use WhatsApp here (east of the Atlantic Ocean,) even on iPhones, because you never know which kind of phone all your friends are using. Apple and Andr
by pmontra 3y ago
Everybody use WhatsApp here (east of the Atlantic Ocean,) even on iPhones, because you never know which kind of phone all your friends are using. Apple and Android could stop developing their messaging apps and nobody would notice. SMSes are only for banks and spam.
- throwaway290 3y agoeveryone uses whatsapp, except those using telegram or facebook messenger.
- riffraff 3y agoLucky you, I still have contacts using Viber
- throwaway290 3y agoRight, forgot to list that one
- ido 3y agoSignal?
- TheHappyOddish 3y agoNone of these are significant in my country of almost 30m people. You are in a bubble.
- throwaway290 3y agoNot everyone and as soon as you go to another country they are using another messenger so unless you want to never communicate with them again you will have both installed
- Scoring6931 3y agoGiven that iMessage has 1.3 billion active monthly users, WhatsApp has 2 billion and Facebook Messenger with 3, I don’t believe they are the one living in a bubble.
- midoridensha 3y agoIt's the same here in Japan: everyone uses LINE messenger. SMS is pretty much never used because it's considered a privacy violation; only delivery companies and banks and the like use it (and spammers, like you said). Nobody cares about iMessage's colored bubbles.
- throwaway290 3y agoBut it's never "everyone", there's always someone using something else in some part of the word so end result everyone has 5 different apps.
- midoridensha 3y agoNo, in Japan, it really is everyone. All kinds of commercial entities also use LINE to communicate with customers even. Yes, if you want to talk to people in other parts of the world, you'll need a different app for that, because different parts of the world tend to use different apps (e.g., Chinese all use WeChat, Europeans seem to use WhatsApp, etc.). If you just want to talk to people in Japan, LINE is all you need. (Taiwan too, I think)
- throwaway290 3y ago> If you just want to talk to people in Japan, LINE is all you need. I talk to them on Facebook Messenger and Instagram personally. Which means "people in Japan" have them installed also. So you get my drift :) One messenger is never "all you need" unless you pick your friends based on what app they use.
- midoridensha 3y ago>I talk to them on Facebook Messenger and Instagram personally. Which means "people in Japan" have them installed also. So you get my drift :) No, I don't. Those people only have them to talk to you, because you're not in Japan and don't use LINE. People in Japan who don't have foreign friends don't have this issue. (Also, Instagram is not a messaging app. Messenger is.)