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When you say "Europe" where exactly do you mean? My experience of not having a Whatsapp account and being in Europe is that I don't miss it. I'm not in a few

by Lio 10mo ago

When you say "Europe" where exactly do you mean? My experience of not having a Whatsapp account and being in Europe is that I don't miss it. I'm not in a few group chats with people that won't use Signal but that's it. I've never had an issue contacting any business or any indivdual.

wolvoleo 10mo ago
Here in Spain you absolutely can't live without it lol. Also telegram
- Lio 10mo ago
  Counter point, I had no issues on my last visit to Spain.
  - wolvoleo 10mo ago
    No I meant if you live here, not if you just visit of course. If you're part of society here you really need it.
- prmoustache 10mo ago
  I live in Spain and I don't think you can't live without it. Sure you will get a bit socially disconnected at times but that's about it.
  - wolvoleo 10mo ago
    Well you won't die if you don't have it, no. But all my friends, local businesses etc everything is on WhatsApp (and telegram for larger groups). I'd really be an outcast if I didn't use it.
    - prmoustache 10mo ago
      Local business still also work with phone. I still have whatsapp but some of my contacts don't even care to check it anyway so they can take 2 weeks to see your messages. How useful is that? In the end I only really keep it to communicate with my family abroad and my in law's extended family in another continent. My own progeniture as well as my partner have conversation/xmpp setup on their smartphone + a laptop. While I haven't done a whatsapp suicide yet, I told them it was important to have other means of communication in case their phone died, a cloud vendor had issue or their account was suddently banned. I used to be in a group of parents when my kids were in primary school but it was mostly useless and full of intense mums arguing against each other. I barely looked at it. My dance class supposedly has a whatsapp group but I didn't join it and I heard only a few annoying persons post random memes in it. I went once there only to see nobody there and heard it was cancelled afterwards , no big deal. I'd rather do the trip once for nothing than be spammed all year long with stupid memes.
  - jcul 10mo ago
    In Ireland, many child care providers use it as the only way to communicate, posting service updates, photos etc to WhatsApp groups. Same goes for kids sports activities.

by Lio 10mo ago

wolvoleo 10mo ago

Here in Spain you absolutely can't live without it lol. Also telegram

Lio 10mo ago
Counter point, I had no issues on my last visit to Spain.
- wolvoleo 10mo ago
  No I meant if you live here, not if you just visit of course. If you're part of society here you really need it.
prmoustache 10mo ago
I live in Spain and I don't think you can't live without it. Sure you will get a bit socially disconnected at times but that's about it.
- wolvoleo 10mo ago
  Well you won't die if you don't have it, no. But all my friends, local businesses etc everything is on WhatsApp (and telegram for larger groups). I'd really be an outcast if I didn't use it.
  - prmoustache 10mo ago
    Local business still also work with phone. I still have whatsapp but some of my contacts don't even care to check it anyway so they can take 2 weeks to see your messages. How useful is that? In the end I only really keep it to communicate with my family abroad and my in law's extended family in another continent. My own progeniture as well as my partner have conversation/xmpp setup on their smartphone + a laptop. While I haven't done a whatsapp suicide yet, I told them it was important to have other means of communication in case their phone died, a cloud vendor had issue or their account was suddently banned. I used to be in a group of parents when my kids were in primary school but it was mostly useless and full of intense mums arguing against each other. I barely looked at it. My dance class supposedly has a whatsapp group but I didn't join it and I heard only a few annoying persons post random memes in it. I went once there only to see nobody there and heard it was cancelled afterwards , no big deal. I'd rather do the trip once for nothing than be spammed all year long with stupid memes.
- jcul 10mo ago
  In Ireland, many child care providers use it as the only way to communicate, posting service updates, photos etc to WhatsApp groups. Same goes for kids sports activities.