cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2037625
Impossible. Everybody I know uses WhatsApp.
I‘m not really a loner but I‘m also not willing to do much to be included socially if it requires me to do things that I don‘t believe in.
If your fancy night club requires me to be dressed in a certain way i have no interest of getting in. If your barbecue invitation requires me to install an app that I don‘t feel comfortable with I‘m eating potato salad at home.
In many countries cheap/unlimited SMS was not a thing decades ago, so whatsapp filled that gap. Nowadays things got way better, but people are already used Whatsapp, and in some places companies even offer “unlimited whatsapp” in their plans, so seems unlikely to change.
Also in smaller countries whatsapp and viber were the way to communicate with friends and family in other countries. Not only messages, but audio and video calls. Audio messages are also quite important.
And groups, that’s another vector how Viber spread around, parents got to have groups with other parents from their kid’s school class.
short answer: no, i can’t
I’m from Sweden, and the only people that asked me to join a WA group where from various African countries.
Never run in to it otherwise, SMS and Messenger is still king here.
