• Spliffman1@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I don’t live in the states but most of the people i know there use WhatsApp… Actually most of the people I know anywhere use it lol. I wondered what the basis of that comment was that in the US “nobody uses whatsapp” 🤷… Maybe he meant nobody in his tight inner circle… Or maybe he doesn’t know who’s using WhatsApp because he doesn’t use it

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        I’ve literally never met anyone that even knows what it is, although I thought it would be obvious just based on how people talk that I was speaking anecdotally and not from literal statistics. I come across Facebook messenger somewhat commonly but never Whatsapp.

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          1 year ago

          Actually totally reverse for me, everybody uses whatsapp and I never hear of Facebook messenger 😅

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          1 year ago

          Actual stats say 98 million people use WhatsApp in US, like 1 in 4, but I’d guess it’s kinda regional or cultural…for example probably more in urban areas and I know for sure more in Latino communities lol

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      congrats you’re an outlier I suppose. I’ve only met maybe 5 people that know what Whatsapp is. telegram is marginally more popular but only because a lot of drug dealers use it (they would have better luck with matrix or even signal)

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        I’m surprised with the reactions to this. The only people I use whatsapp with are all outside the US. It’s discord/telegram/sms for everyone in the US and it’s miserable.