> Being cut off from it makes it really annoying to deal with ordinary communications with friends, for business, etc.
As someone who has never used WhatsApp, why is it annoying to communicate without it?
As someone who has never used WhatsApp, why is it annoying to communicate without it?
Northern Europe: Facebook messenger
United States: SMS/iMessage
And pleasantly so. I actually barely even text - I tell friends to send me an email, or even better just show up at my door and we'll hang out. I get that I'm an outlier, but I enjoy having my digital communications be for work, and my "real" life being offline.
That your carrier had such abusive SMS & MMS rates that it pushed people to Over The Top apps is concerning, and raises notable digital sovereignty and Telecom regulation questions about where your local telecom regulator failed.
I'm glad ours didn't.
Appointments use WA. Deliveries are communicated through WA. Pretty much every physical social group uses it - residential communities, alumni groups, school groups, family, friends. I've been pushing people at work to just use Slack but they're more like "contact me on WA for emergencies".
I use it extensively for youth sports teams, as the most popular team management app in my region is hot garbage.