• Poob@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Real talk, is WhatsApp more than just a text message replacement to people? I see it get brought up in talks about social media and I get very confused.

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      1 year ago

      India has a real issue of forwarding misinformation on WhatsApp. And people getting added to group chats like telegram channels

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      1 year ago

      In a lot of countries, entire businesses rely on it as a complimentary and necessary form of quick internal communication. Easy to form groups and share images/videos on the fly.

      Overseas the app is the main platform for people to stay connected through text and voice messages too.

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        1 year ago

        This. I do a lot of consulting for Korean companies and they live out of WhatsApp for all their business comms/file sharing similar to Slack.