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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I’ve somehow never used WhatsApp.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You must not be from Europe or Brazil then

pls send help
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh, that recruitment agent sometime ago.

Are you using facebook?

No

Whatsapp?

No

Xing?

No

...

Hey, just send me an E-Mail.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Gigachad.
I on the other hand was actually pleasantly surprised when I got contacted by a recruiter on Matrix , that was the best feeling ever

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

Same. I hate all these messaging apps people use. Unless you need security, then just use the one your phone already has. Otherwise use signal.

[–] DV8 4 points 1 year ago

I wish I could say the same but if you want to date you have to here. I despise and absolutely hate how you have to you use a phone number to register. And then every contact you have can add you to a group so everyone there now can have your number.

I've had a stalker before and I hate that stuff like that makes it trivially easy for her to get my number again. I literally can't understand how women are okay with absolutely shitty systems like this. I really can't repeat enough how much I strongly hate WhatsApp and how everyone else thinks it's so good for exactly the reason that I hate it. It's too easy to send messages despite me never giving you my number to begin with. SMS is the same but you can't add me to a group without my permission and share my number with a group of people I don't know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No idea. It’s just not a platform anyone in my life has used in a manner that dragged me in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Surely it can't be so popular it's inconceivable to you that someone hasn't used it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you live in most of Europe or definitely Latin America, yeah, it is so popular it's kind of inconceivable not to use it, or at least hard to imagine. I genuinely don't understand how people in the US communicate.

[–] mriormro 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You text someone. What're you talking about?

[–] nitefox 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you send an SMS in Europe, you get no answer most of the time

[–] mriormro 1 points 1 year ago

All the better

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've used SMS exactly 3 times in my life, all 10+ years ago. My phone plan doesn't even include SMS anymore. It boggles my mind that people use SMS in the US, and I mean that seriously.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is. To stay in contact with anyone you need whatsapp.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well I'm glad that isn't happening here, because I would just have to miss everything.