muaveriWhy you might not want to use whatsapp anymore
The problem is everybody is using it and its impossible to move to signal etc
impossible
Is it really? Is someone holding a gun and forcing you to use it? You can always quit if you really wanted to.
I mean yeah, but i would have no contacts to anyone, here in germany we literally use nothing else, contact to teachers for assignments is lost, couldnt text with my family, would have no contact to my friends etc
But what if you messaged them via SMS, would they refuse to reply back?
Idky most people dont eaven have that on their contract i think
PlutoniumAcidWhen I send sms to these folks, they don’t even notice that they got a message. “Oh, you sent sms? I don’t use that.”
When I send sms to these folks, they don’t even notice that they got a message. “Oh, you sent sms? I don’t use that.”
in my immediate family (brother and parents) we use signal, but everyone else in my life still uses whatsapp. sadly the zucc has a monopolyomn messaging in europe.
JujukiNot only everybody, but companies, banks and goverment instances are using it too. Some apps that sends their OTP via WhatsApp. Some companies and instances only reachable.via whatsapp bot and whatnot.
Thats smth that i forgot, corona test results per whatsapp and a lot of companies also just have a whatsapp kontskt on their “kontakt us” page
Dang, I’m feeling pretty lucky that no one in my life uses WhatsApp. Sounds like that’s not the norm.
In europe literally everybody uses whatsapp you wont be able to do anything without it (docotrs, food delivery, literally every person like friends and familly, corona test results, company customer support, the list goes on)
I live in Europe and I don’t use WhatsApp. Never have. Hasn’t been a problem for me.
Tad LispyThat’s grossly exaggerated. I live in western Europe and never once used WhatsApp. There are very occasional frictions, like people being surprised I don’t have it. Then when I explain that it’s operated by Facebook, they are also surprised and sometimes are willing to quit themselves.
Friends and family, sure But in the UK nothing official is using WhatsApp. It’s all SMS or email. In which countries do companies use WhatsApp for customer support?
I even deleted it for a year, but had to re-install it due to not being able to group chat
I used signal and SMS for people who weren’t on signal
and even signal removed SMS support so now I use it to talk to 3 people on signal
EVERYONE in my backwater country of residence uses WhatsApp and they can’t be bothered to use anything else.
When I say I don’t have that service then they are stumped and can’t think of a way to message me. Fucking morons.
Adults in Austria… Sigh.
tabularFor some “everyone” not talking to you is a perk.
The people I most care for use Discord. I worry I will lose constant with most of them if I stop using that too but I’ve never tried to get other to use something else.