I only use it because there's no way I could convince my friends and family to move to anything else.

There's no point in switching to another app if I then literally couldn't communicate with the people I need to through it.

Wait until you hear how many people use facebook messenger.

Signal is the best.

I wish people would stop using the Crowder meme template.

Eh, whatsapp isn't ideal and its owner is one of the big devils of today, but it's the only way to send and receive instant messages among billions of people. I despise it, but it's the only way I can contact people. Needless to say, they don't give a single flying fuck about privacy.

Whatsapp outages make people migrate to Telegram for 1-2 days at most, nobody ends up staying there. Signal? I've only ever met three other people in RL who have even heard of it, and I work in IT.

A more apt comparison would be to languages. Whatsapp is english: clunky, weird, full of nonsense, but it's what "everyone talks". Signal would probably be lojban or esperanto.

SMS is IE, Whatsapp is Chrome, and Signal is Firefox. Use Signal/Firefox.

Chrome is the Internet Explorer of the browsers.

Look, I hate Facebook just as much as the next guy. But I live in The Netherlands and it's the primary way I can contact literally everyone I know. So changing to another messaging app is hard here.

Fuck Steven Crowder and any meme based on his bullshit

Steven Crowder is the wife abuser of the meme world.

Nah. SMS and iMessage are the IE of messaging. Unsafe and locked in.

signal and telegram are so much better, don't know why we can't get over that shit app

In some countries like India, people just assume that everyone uses whatsapp. It's gotten to the point where whatsapp has become the definition of messaging (for most people).

I don't see how Whatsapp is outdated to the point where one would compare it to IE, but I'll say whatsapp is more like Google Chrome than IE.

Here, use this:

Except it does nearly everything any other messaging app does, so there really is no need to force a switch. Unlike Internet Explorer, that used outdated rendering engine making it both slow and buggy, it was unsafe as it used ActiveX, didn't support ad-blockers it actually broke or didn't open most new website.

I hope that the DMA gets passed in the EU. It'll (hopefully) break the monopoly worldwide

WhatsApp seems very conservative with adding new features. I generally feel the features they do decide to add are all pretty useful. Telegram on the other hand doesn't ever seem to slow down with the new features. Many of them seem great, but just as many I would never use. I'm still wondering why Telegram won't introduce end-to-end encryption as a default.

Its privacy is very questionable, but how is it outdated?

Op thinks only the USA exists apparently

Can we further compress this meme template to the point that nobody could possibly tell it's Stephen Crowder in it

I'd say Viber is worse (unbearably slow, has ads), and it's the most used messaging app in Ukraine which just sucks. (basically everyone has it)
people are slowly switching over to Telegram but it still has less then 50% market share...

I never have any problems Whatsapp. My messages get sent and I receive messages no problem.

Matrix or Signal only for me. nobody uses Whatsapp here in the states, sms is simply insecure in every way, and telegram has very suspicious roots imo, along with a lack of e2ee and a terrible ui.

signal is the most secure option and matrix is federated making it the most "open" option.

Whatsapp is still supported

I’ve somehow never used WhatsApp.

Someone has not used Line...