I often think people in the US don’t realise how big WhatsApp is outside of the States. I scrolled through my SMS messages for the last six months and didn’t have a single message from a human, only automated services. It’s all in WhatsApp and Signal.
I’m a bit glad that WhatsApp never caught on here in the US. I’ve heard nothing good come out of that platform ever since it was bought by Meta, and I don’t even know how regulators allowed that to occur in the first place.
In China we mainly used WeChat, which I can’t say is any better. Signal is fine though and works well for me. I just wish I could get more people I know to use it instead of Discord.
Inside it as I need to for things like social groups and social groups. Meta and tracking aside it’s a great app. Works well, reliable. Good group messaging features and community features, for multiple groups. Cross platform and no ads.
In Indonesia it’s used for booking activities and events. In India it’s used for payment with GPay.
I prefer whatsapp to telegram and discord, and especially WeChat.
I definitely try to force people onto signal but apart from that whatsapp is decent. Whatsapp collects your metadata, and likely sells it, but your messages are encrypted using the signal protocol, which makes it better than discord, telegram, or WeChat, in my view.
And especially better than the alternative my american friends like to use, which seem to be snapchat and instagram messages.
Yeah I only get missed call messages, I used sms once last year when internet didn’t work on one end. I can’t even scroll through the last six months like you because the entire year fits on one page
I often think people in the US don’t realise how big WhatsApp is outside of the States. I scrolled through my SMS messages for the last six months and didn’t have a single message from a human, only automated services. It’s all in WhatsApp and Signal.
I’m a bit glad that WhatsApp never caught on here in the US. I’ve heard nothing good come out of that platform ever since it was bought by Meta, and I don’t even know how regulators allowed that to occur in the first place.
In China we mainly used WeChat, which I can’t say is any better. Signal is fine though and works well for me. I just wish I could get more people I know to use it instead of Discord.
Inside it as I need to for things like social groups and social groups. Meta and tracking aside it’s a great app. Works well, reliable. Good group messaging features and community features, for multiple groups. Cross platform and no ads.
In Indonesia it’s used for booking activities and events. In India it’s used for payment with GPay.
I prefer whatsapp to telegram and discord, and especially WeChat.
I definitely try to force people onto signal but apart from that whatsapp is decent. Whatsapp collects your metadata, and likely sells it, but your messages are encrypted using the signal protocol, which makes it better than discord, telegram, or WeChat, in my view.
And especially better than the alternative my american friends like to use, which seem to be snapchat and instagram messages.
Interesting as I’m the opposite. I refuse to have WhatsApp cause Meta.
All my messages are done in SMS or iMessage. I will miss out on some group chats but I couldn’t care less.
Tried Signal, but getting my friends to use Signal is as difficult as getting me to use WhatsApp.
Yeah I only get missed call messages, I used sms once last year when internet didn’t work on one end. I can’t even scroll through the last six months like you because the entire year fits on one page