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Where are you from? I think location and Culture makes a huge difference. Whatsapp wasnt even a thing in US before Facebook bought it. France was mainly iMessages ( transition from SMS ) before Facebook acquired WhatsApp.

Then there are places like China which no one uses WhatsApp.

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WhatsApp and especially LINE were heavily used in China until they were blocked. After that, local company Tencent's WeChat became dominant.

WhatsApp has giant user bases in India, South America, and Africa.

Here in Mexico too.

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