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Well, this is a new way to spot an American in the wild.

WhatsApp is basically cross platform iMessage. That’s why many parts of the world use it.

Always has been. Many Americans, myself included, never used WhatsApp since SMS between people we have needed to contact was "free" since like 2007.

While I do use iMessage a lot, I have typically used Facebook Messenger for cross-platform.

But now I am using RCS more and more since it's on iPhone now.