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It hardly matters, almost everyone on earth uses WhatsApp for group chats.
by dontlaugh 3y ago
It hardly matters, almost everyone on earth uses WhatsApp for group chats.
- mardifoufs 3y agoI'm not American and I've never seen anyone use WhatsApp. I only use it to text my family back in Morocco. Facebook Messenger is even more universal than WhatsApp in my experience
- dontlaugh 3y agoSure, that one is popular too. My point was that almost no one uses iMessage group chats.
- MetaWhirledPeas 3y agoThat's obviously not true or we wouldn't be having many of these discussions.
- dontlaugh 3y agoIt’s clearly a US vs everyone else thing.
- rootusrootus 3y agoDespite your username, I just have to laugh. Millions of Americans use something other than iMessage. Apple doesn't have anything like a monopoly.
- wkat4242 3y agoTrue but it only takes one or two to become a problem, unless you really have a small circle of friends.
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- mardifoufs 3y agoAgreed that I don't get the entire "iMessages is essential". I also have never seen it been used, I'm a zoomer and most of my friends use iPhones, but with snapchat or anything else for group messages. Maybe it's a generational thing!
- girvo 3y agoThe funniest part is all the olds (of which I am one) talk for your generation on this topic. Of course anyone who actually interacts with zoomers knows that this “green bubble blue bubble” thing is a media beat up: discord, Snapchat, instagram are what matter to western zoomers for group chats
- fomine3 3y ago"western" is too wide categorize for this topic because it's different per country.
- shepherdjerred 3y agoDefinitely not the case for Americans
- kergonath 3y agoIt depends entirely on your social circles. That’s why all these discussions about $some_platform being completely useless because of course everyone uses $other_platform are completely pointless. I haven’t seen any of these in which there was any useful information or even a hint of looking things in perspective. It’s only people telling everyone else that no platform is relevant except for their pet app.
- tempestn 3y agoI agree, but I find it hard to comprehend the social circles that shun people for not having an iDevice. Why would people choose to use a platform that not everyone can participate in, when there are just-as-good alternatives that are available to everyone? Like, if there's a group chat that doesn't want to include me because I don't have an iPhone, I don't think I want to be in that group.
- httptoolkit 3y agoIn quite a few countries, the vast majority of Internet users (in Kenya, 97%!) use whatsapp at least once a month: https://www.verint.com/blog/what-countries-are-the-biggest-whatsapp-users/ https://www.verint.com/blog/what-countries-are-the-biggest-w... In India alone, whatsapp MAU already reaches nearly 50% of imessage MAU worldwide, and rapidly rising.
- javawizard 3y agoSource? Of the many group chats I'm involved in, exactly one of them uses WhatsApp. (I'm American, for context.)
- dontlaugh 3y agoIn the US, sure. Very few of the people in Earth live there.
- lxgr 3y agoQuite a few people commenting here live there. You also seem to be forgetting the most-populous country in the world – no WhatsApp there either. Between China and the US, that's already 20% of the global population unlikely to be using WhatsApp for most of their messaging.
- johannes1234321 3y ago> You also seem to be forgetting the most-populous country in the world – no WhatsApp there either. However in the 4th largest (Indonesia) everybody uses WhatsApp (at least a few years back) as Facebook offered free data to their services there (internet.org / "Free Basics") whereas iMessage would cost money for data traffic or SMS/MMS. Thus really different across countries and regions and social circles.
- cfcosta 3y agoSame for the 5th, Brazil. Everyone uses WhatsApp here and has been more than a decade since the last time I've ever had to use sms (never even used mms).
- mkl 3y agoMost populous is India now - lots of WhatsApp.
- kergonath 3y agoBut very few of the people on Earth live where you live, either. What’s the point? People I know in India tend to use WhatsApp. People I know in Europe tend to use whatever shit is popular where they live. Discord, Telegram, FB Messenger, iMessage for those with iPhones, SMSes as a default, you name it. Again, what’s the point?
- lxgr 3y agoWell, the most and third most populous countries on Earth don't.
- beacham 3y agoI am in the United States. I’ve never used WhatsApp a single time. I’m involved in a number of different group chats across many different organizations and groups.