Yeah they’re all on Facebook Messenger which sucks. I’ve managed to switch a few in my surroundings to Signal but I still need to keep Messenger for holdouts.
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Zeoic@lemmy.world 5 hours agoMust be more popular in your country, in Canada I don’t know a single person on whatsapp
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
Zeoic@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Thankfully I have managed to get everyone to switch from Messenger to Signal, atleast for talking to me haha. Two other family members being privacy oriented too really helped getting the rest of the family moved over.
bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
It’s very big in western Europe. Here in the Netherlands everybody is on WhatsApp pretty much since it’s creation
Pechente@feddit.org 5 hours ago
In Germany too and I remember how upsetting it was to me from the beginning. There were third party messengers that supported established (at the time) services like ICQ or live messenger but people got onto the hot new thing because it’s so much like SMS.
bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
I remember starting to use it because texting was pretty expensive and limited at the time. Whatsapp was free (group) texting when on WiFi and still cheaper when on cellular. If texting wasn’t so expensive at the time I really don’t think whatsapp would’ve caught on like it did. Now people are just used to it so that’s probably why it’s still big