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Same in Brazil. WhatsApp outages become the main national news when they happen, because it became so fundamental in everyday's life.

It is not just people talking to each other, several business rely almost completely in WhatsApp around here.

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I think pretty much Europe + Africa + LatAm + Asia (minus East Asia) is using WhatsApp as defacto personal/work/business communication platform. Even in govt. domain.

IG is also still the top social media as well globally.

this just reminds me how US centric some of us default too, myself included.

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