I read about WhatsApp and how people can’t part with Meta because of it, however no one on my continent uses it. Why is it so popular in the EU and other parts of the world?

  • @hawgietonight
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    6 months ago

    Spain here. Because calling and messaging (sms/mms) were quite expensive. And still are.

    It was somewhere around 2010 when my wife was explaining how one of her coworkers used this application to send messages for free. We installed it and it caught on like fire mouth to mouth. People changed their phones to smartphones just to join the bandwagon. It was wild.