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?

  • Squizzy@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Okay your answer annoyed me because I don’t see how the size of european countries really relates, whatsapp was popular because of group text functionality and messages being free I don’t think it had anything to do with international communication, that said whatsapp and viber took off during the recession when emigration was rampant so there could be something there.

    Anyway, I went to investigate and the average US state is larger than the average EU country by quite the margin 190,000 sqkm to 126,000 sqkm.