cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2037625
Gonna imagine most of the responses will be from North America where WhatsApp use is significantly less.
Being based in Euopre, I’d say probably no; everybody uses WhatsApp. We used it a lot before Facebook bought it as well.
Finland. Wa is rare in business use of any sort. My employer bans it for anything work related as do many others. I’ve seen maybe one hands fingers worth of businesses with a wa front.
Various associations and clubs do use it for group chats, though.
Also, absolutely not. And you should never trust anyone who says anything like “in Europe” or “Europeans”. It’s a continent of dozens of countries and cultures many of which have been in war on and off for centuries. There is absolutely nothing that is uniform across all of Europe.
That’s crazy, I can’t tell you a single person under 80 years old that don’t use it here (Southern Europe), even the most technology agnostic farmer dad knows it, and use it. I thought that was the case in all of Europe too.
Absolutely, I don’t know anyone that really uses WhatsApp.
For personal - I have never used whatsapp and never will. All my friends either use Signal or SMS. North America here.
For work - I am forced to use whatsapp and hate it, but would not be able to do my job without it, so I’m stuck.
short answer: no, i can’t
European here, I did use WA until Meta (Facebook back then) bought it. Then I typed up a copypasta that said something like:
Because Facebook is buying WhatsApp, I am leaving the platform. You can reach me on these apps: [Link to installer for Signal] [Link to installer for Telegram]
I have since set up a Matrix server that puppets for Telegram so I don’t have the actual client installed anywhere.