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Meanwhile in Spain I use WhatsApp to contact the municipality, the GP uses it to send my blood results and package delivery drivers ask me to share my location.
by retired 3mo ago
Meanwhile in Spain I use WhatsApp to contact the municipality, the GP uses it to send my blood results and package delivery drivers ask me to share my location. I hate it.
- mschild 3mo agoWhy not delete it? I assume that if you don't have it, they offer some other form of communication with you?
- amelius 3mo agoVery funny.
- reedciccio 3mo agoYes, they do but they require walking to their office and deal with paper or call them during ever shrinking office hours. Take your poison.
- jagged-chisel 3mo agoPick your poison. “Take” sounds too threatening.
- amelius 3mo ago"Inject" is clearly the right word here.
- dp-hackernews 3mo agoActually... Shakespeare’s Othello (c. 1603‑1604) Iago says to Othello: “Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, / … O, thou wilt choose thy poison, and be damned!”
- amelius 3mo agoShakespeare did not have to deal with today's tech problems.
- retired 3mo agoThanks for typing the exact reply I wanted to give! Yes, I’m happy that I can request garbage pickup through WhatsApp instead of having to fill out a form at the municipal building. An online portal or app would be even better than WhatsApp.
- tsimionescu 3mo agoWould you rather they used Teams? Or what would be a better alternative? Phone / email?
- retired 3mo agoSome secure online portal would be nice for the GP or municipality. The delivery issues can be solved by introducing a standardized address system for Spain but that would take decades to roll out. Some people I know don’t even have an address, they just use the land registry number. Or just the name of their village + surnames, which is typically good enough for the standard mail (but not good enough for DHL/UPS/DPD packages, their drivers want your location via WhatsApp)
- dizhn 3mo agoThe 2016 coup attempt in Turkey was organized entirely on whatsapp. All of the conversations were recovered from multiple phones too.