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Teens abandon X and Facebook as TikTok and WhatsApp gain momentum, report (www.techspot.com)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (6 children)

WhatsApp? The instant messenger boomers use on their phones?

Damn, who saw that coming.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Yeah, the other instant messenger owned by Facebook

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago

american, right? It's very popular in other places.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most countries stopped using SMS ages ago. WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram are ubiquitous.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I WISH signal was ubiquitous. Half of my friends are still using Facebook Messenger so I still have to resort to using SMS for them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Belgian?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Is Belgium known for using Messenger?

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

I thought so, but that might be 10 years ago and in Flanders, so… 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

SMS for everybody not on a self-hostable encrypted messenger. Why fool oneself into thinking a US managed messenger is private?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Spotted the iMessage user who routinly cries about dot colour

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Weird that this is your association as using it would require an iPhone which most youth don't have. My thought was Telegram, which is omnipresent at least around me, with Whatsapp often being kept just for the parents or older relatives.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

"an iPhone which most youth dont have"

i see you dont live in north america

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

telegram is for pedos and this one guy i know uses it and i question his motives

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

No, it's used by just about everyone. Generally the younger the person and the bigger their city, the more likely they are to gravitate towards Telegram rather than Whatsapp.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

I know alot of people in my city and its one of the biggest in north america and they have never heard of it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

telegram is one of the worst, privacy wise.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I know, and it's terrible that it's so unavoidable. I managed to avoid Whatsapp, but without Telegram managing university life would be incredibly hard.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In most of Europe WhatsApp is synonymous with text messaging.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Also in South Asia and the Middle East.